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Welcome to Clitheroe United Reformed Church, we hope we can give you a warm welcome!

Sitting alongside the Roman Watling Street, there has been a church at the heart of Stony Stratford since 1451.

Reached along tiny, winding flower filled lanes (or by footpath), this medieval church sits on a south facing slope looking over a tiny valley to the slopes of the Sugar Loaf mountain.

The interior of the church is 13th century at its best, with a wooden roof in imitation of stone vaulting and one of the best collections of Green Men in England.

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.

Nearly four centuries ago, the founding members of Stony Stratford Baptist Church committed to raising a building to glorify God and announce His Kingdom to the community of Stony Stratford.

The first service for the Wesleyan Methodists in this building was held in November 1899.

Built by the Wrighte family in the 1720s in the style of a Georgian Reception Hall to match the development of Gayhurst Manor.

This church has strong American associations as during the Second World War some 6,000 men and women of the 351st Heavy Bombardment Group Eight, United States Army Airforce, was stationed at the newly created Polebrook Airbase.

Clearwell Cemetery (Mortuary) Chapel was designed by the renowned Gothic Revival architect John Middleton, and was opened in 1867.