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The church has close associations with Bardney Abbey, a Benedictine monastery founded in 697 by King Ethelred of Mercia.

Dedicated to St Chad, who died in AD 672, and listed in the Domesday Book, the outline of the present building dates from the 14th century.

St Kentigern built his church here in 560, later leaving it to St Asaph.

The church is Victorian and was built by the 10th Duke of St Albans for use by his family, estate workers and the villagers.

This medieval Welsh parish church played a key role in the founding of the community of St Asaph (LLanelwy) and is worth a visit.

In the 1930s Arthur Mee realised that there were very few communities that had not suffered military fatalities in the First World War. He coined the term ‘Thankful villages’ to describe them and Minting is one such village.

The foundation stone of this high Victorian church was laid in October 1882, it was designed by William Knight, the architect of St Andrew’s Church, Mansfield Road, Nottingham.

St Chad's church in Holt is a marvellous historic church, built largely of red sandstone, on the banks of the River Dee, just barely inside Wales.

St Bride's is widely regarded as one of the finest pieces of post war ecclesiastical architecture in Scotland.

The original chapel was built around 1746 by Richard Smedley, a mining magnate from Risley, on land given by the Earl of Stamford.

Medieval church with spectacular angel hammerbeam roof, significant pieces of stained glass, historic stones, and gorgeous views.