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Built as a private chapel for the Hibbert family, St Catherine’s has a unique oddity; its furnishings are all older than the building itself.

There are interesting features of many periods in this unassuming village church, which had a thatched roof until 1869.

During the reign of Henry II, the church was given to the priory of Thurgarten.

An almost perfect specimen of village church architecture in its exterior, and in its interior possibly unsurpassed by anything of its kind in England (Illustrated London News, 1870).

The history of St Laurence has been bound up with Southwell Minster for almost one thousand years.

The Norman / Victorian church is dedicated to St Mary, the mother of Jesus and to the Roman Saint Laurence, who traditionally was martyred by being roasted alive on a gridiron.

The Good Shepherd owes its existence to Revd Samuel Andrew, vicar of nearby Tideswell in the late 19th century.

St John's has an unusual looking exterior as it has a slim tower in comparison to the nave.

The origins of the church go back to 1887 when a preaching station was set up in a house in Faulkner Street, in 1908 a small site was bought in Walker Street and a 'tin tabernacle' was erected as a Congregational Church.

Modern and welcoming church in the centre of Buckley.

Our church, a fine Grade I listed building dating from the 14th century, contains 33 late medieval bench ends, including one depicting a dog preaching to a pig!