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The church has pride of place in this historic hilltop village, making a photogenic composition with the black and white houses around it.

St Mary's is most famous for carvings from a church or churches that stood on this site going back to Saxon times, found throughout the church, mounted into the fabric of the walls.

A strong and magnificent pile which commands the attention of all judicious observers, built and fitted out between 1714 and 1729, St George in the East was one of fifty new churches planned for London, although only twelve were completed.

St Paul's Bow Common is the most famous and significant parish church to be built in Britain in the latter half of the 20th century.

Although St Nicholas is a large and imposing building, it served as a mere chapel of ease for nearby St Margaret’s.

Clare's church, built in the centre of the little town with handsome house on all sides, is a large building in the Perpendicular style, reflecting the prosperous times in which it was built.

It is thought that a wooden church may have existed in Aldbourne as early as the 7th or 8th century and the Domesday Book (1086) records that the church held two hides of land, sufficient for two plough teams, to provide for the church and priest.

Rebuilt on the site of the medieval church, which was destroyed by a bomb on the night of 8th/9th May 1941, St Michael’s is built of concrete with Ancaster stone facings outside.

It seems odd to us, in an age where it is accepted that the super rich spend all their money on themselves, that it was not at all unusual for wealthy medieval people to spend some of their own fortunes on such things as churches.