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St Swithun's is a beautiful ancient church, one of smallest in the country which has been a centre of worship for 900 years.

Pyrford's church retains the shape it had when first built in Norman times, apart from the addition of a bell turret and north porch in Tudor times, and a vestry in the 19th century.

Medieval wall paintings and tomb carvings in a church which has completely escaped modernisation.

The church lies in a quiet location amidst fields and woodland on the edge of the small Lakeland village of Underbarrow.

A church was first established on this site in the aftermath of the Dissolution of the Monasteries when Cartmel Priory was dissolved as part of the Henrician Reformation and a chapel was built on the present site using materials from Cartmel around 1537.

The building was originally known as the London Street Mission House and the first foundation stone was laid in 1800.

The Cathedral welcomes everyone who passes through, if you are visiting as a tourist, come to offer your personal prayers and light a candle, or interested in history, architecture or stained glass windows.

Beckenham as a settlement dates from 862.

The impressive remains of an abbey founded in 1123 by Stephen, later King of England, including much of the east end and west tower of the church, the ornately decorated chapter house and the cloister buildings.