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A hermit’s hut, chapel or church has stood on this site for at least 1500 years, and St Sampson’s lies on the ancient Saints Way along which many of the Celtic Saints came from Padstow to Fowey, thus avoiding a perilous sea route around Land’s End.

The parish church was built in the 13th century of local limestone, but most of what we can see today is the result of a comprehensive rebuilding in 1865 by architect James Fowler of Louth.

The greatest treasure in this church is the stone reredos in the east wall of the north aisle.

The church is situated alongside a stream in the picturesque and secluded valley of Nansent in the hamlet of St Breock, about a mile west of Wadebridge town centre.

Fascinating Norman church with many monuments and treasures connected to Sir Thomas Barnardiston, believed to be the original 'Roundhead'.

There is evidence that a church existed here in the 12th century, it was however greatly extended in 1915 hence it has two distinct side by side buildings.

There seem to have been chapels of the Knights Templars and Hospitallers in Wetherby but these would be distinct from a parochial chapel for the use of the ordinary laity.

This beautifully simple building is in a valley about a mile from Hastingleigh village, there may have been a church here in the 6th century, but the present building is largely Norman and Early English.

The church of St Mary & St Cuthbert stands above a wide curve in the River Wharfe amid the ruins of Bolton Priory.

John Betjeman described this church as 'tumbledown' in the 1960s, but he also made it clear that he really liked it as it still retains its charm and history.

From a distance the late medieval flint and flushwork tower is typical of East Anglian country churches, but the surprise on reaching the south side of churchyard is quite the most splendid Norman doorway.