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A church set in ‘Clay Country’ 600ft above sea level on the site of an Iron Age fort and looking out towards Newquay and the north coast of Cornwall.

The story goes that St Wyllow, a Christian hermit, was living nearby in 596, legend has it that he was killed beheaded but that he brought the head here, thus deciding where the church should be built.

This church is the first designed and built by the eminent Victorian architect George Edmund Street.

Centrally located in Kirkwall, near the main street and bus station, the church and community hall were built in the 1960s and are currently (2025) being renovated.

St Magnus Cathedral known as the Light in the North and founded in 1137 by the Viking, Earl Rognvald, in honour of his uncle St Magnus, dominates Kirkwall on Orkney.

St Cubert was a Welsh missionary who came over in the 7th century, together with his companion St Carantoc.

The site upon which this little church is built has been holy ground for some 1400 years and it is known that around 550AD Saint Mevan and Saint Issey busied themselves in this neighbourhood organising the early Celtic church.

At St Ewe village the road widens just a bit at the market cross and mounting steps, through the gate you'll see the camellia developed by Mr Tregunna of Caerhayes and named St Ewe.

The patron saint of Creed is first recorded as St Crite in the 10th century and may well have been a Cornish saint and possibly the daughter of either King Mark of Cornwall or an Irish king.

Visit the church with the tallest tower in Cornwall and see the highly decorative mosaic reredos and both of the well known Hawkins memorials, the marble one inside the church, and the ‘Cavalier’ tomb in the churchyard.

St Piran’s is the parish church of Perranzabuloe was situated just outside the village of Perranporth following the demise of the previous church which succumbed to the encroachment of sand.

A rare survival of a quite exceptional unaltered Scots Parish Kirk of 1836.