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A Saxon church with a rood screen linked to Thornton Abbey, the church has been the centre of village life for nearly 1000 years and is home to a family of bats and several swarms of honey bees.

The present church is Victorian, built in the 1860s and dedicated in 1868, but it replaced a Norman church about which, unfortunately, very little is known.

The building was a former Temperance Institute.

All Saints is a 13th century church restored in 1779 and 1878, it is built of soft stone which in places has eroded to show fossilised remains.

All Saints is an impressive sight. A maypole stands in Church Street and is a rare survival, the tradition of the maypole goes back to the 17th century and May Day continues to be celebrated by the village.

The small parish church of St Margaret of Antioch is located near the point where an old Roman road ran north to the fort at Torksey.

A church was founded in 1225 on the west bank of the River Leven and rebuilt in the village in 1640.

Dunblane Cathedral, built upon a Christian site first established by Saint Blane around the year 600, is one of the few surviving medieval churches in Scotland.