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A new lease of life for a little-known gem of a church which poet John Betjeman called 'the finest parish church in Birmingham'.

Southwark Cathedral, once a priory church, is (as in monastic days) a centre for a pattern of daily worship within the English cathedral music tradition: a centre of teaching, of worship, prayer and pilgrimage, open and inclusive to all.

First mentioned in 1185 and rebuilt in 1441, the current church by Wren was completed in 1692; the tower by Robert Hooke was finished in 1700.

The church started near the railway station, when Rugby was an expanding railway engineering town.

When Wren rebuilt this 12th century church in 1681-86, he employed some of the greatest craftsmen of his age.

A church is known to have stood on this site since before the compiling of the Doomsday Book in which Patcham was registered as Piceham.

The creation of this outstanding late Victorian gothic church was made possible by its patron the local brewer Pickering Phipps, the local architect Matthew Henry Holding and its first incumbent Revd JR Hussey.

A richly rewarding church, both warm and welcoming in the smart northern suburb of Northampton.

On Easter Day 1727 St Mary Woolnoth of the nativity was reopened after it’s rebuilding by Nicholas Hawksmoor, which took 12 years and was paid for from the proceeds of the tax on sea borne coal.

The original church, founded in the early 12th century, was one of the first buildings to be destroyed by the Great Fire as it stood just 300m (1000ft) from Pudding Lane.

Victorian church restored after WW2 by Ninian Comper; highlights include stained glass windows, Baldachino and war memorial in the grounds.

A 13th century church, home to many outstanding features including an 18th century singers gallery, a listed pipe organ and 14th century stone effigies of the Astley family, considered to be some of the finest of their kind in the region.