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A parish church built over 1000 years.

To approach St John’s is to leave behind the busy shopping centre and housing estate and enter a quiet haven.

Daresbury and its church are most well known because of the connection with Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, world famous as Lewis Carroll, who was born here in 1832 and baptised in the church.

This Grade I Norman church has some stones used in its construction which indicate an earlier Saxon church on this site.

Although The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) built a Meeting House in Darlington in 1678 (when they bought the plot for ’35), the present structure was not completed until about 1846.

With its cathedral like in proportions and presence, St Cuthbert's epitomises late 12th to early 13th century Early English style, with extensive use of wall arcading to frame both internal and external windows.

The mother church of Dartmouth and standing some 350ft above the main town on the narrow tract which, since ancient times, has been a right-of-way from the coast through Longcross to the River Dart crossing at Hardnesse.

St Petrox church at the mouth of the river is the oldest of the three parish churches, the earliest reference being in 1192 when it is thought to have been referred to in a deed as the 'monastery of St Peter'.

Gazing across the River Dart from Kingswear, you can see the ancient church of St Saviour.

The church is a fine example of late perpendicular architecture.

We are a Commissioners church consecrated in 1829 and is a warm and friendly place to visit.