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A very peaceful, minimalist building with clever use of glazing in the roof to produce beautiful light on a fine day.

St Mary in the Baum, on St Mary's Gate, was founded in 1740 as a chapel of ease to minister to the people living north of the River Roch.

Hidden in the woods south of the village, St Mary's is a simple aisleless building with its tower, nave and chancel all severely restored by the Victorians.

The church is at the south end of the village adjacent to Eydon Hall, and oddly, both it and the hall post date this fascinating village.

From the west and south, the combination of village green, cottages and church at Cavendish is perfect, and makes one of the loveliest and most famous English villages scenes.

A fishermen's church overlooking the sea.

A simple, quiet and friendly village church dating from the 13 century, standing in a wildlife friendly churchyard.

It is not only the rare dedication to St Guthlac (hermit saint of Croyland in the fens between 677-714) which is unusual but also the church itself.

The combination of church and cottages here is rural England at its most appealing.