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Built in a time of dissent and persecution, this unique secluded chapel was designed to look like a farmyard barn in order to avoid being discovered.

Nicholas Leache, rector of Belchford in 1536, was one of the ringleaders in the Lincolnshire Rising in which 3,000 people marched through the county to protest against closure of the monasteries by Henry VIII.

The small church of St Michael dates to at least the 12th century, with evidence of alteration in the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, plus a comprehensive restoration in 1860 under the direction of James Fowler, a church architect from Louth.

All Saints is by far the oldest church in Wigan, the earliest possible mention of a church at Wigan occurs in the Domesday Survey of 1086.

Why not come and wander, imagining how grand this priory once was from its walls, still laid out in local sandstone.

The church is a wonderful example of 1930s church architecture, of traditional and Art Deco construction.

An active and busy church open six days a week, it is a meeting place for everyone, whether Christian or not.

A beautiful greenstone church consisting of chancel, spacious clerestoried nave, side aisles, porch and western tower carrying six bells.

The earliest reference to a church in Cawthorne can be found in the Domesday Book of 1086, the current church is the third to stand on this site.