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The church at the heart of the town: every year, thousands of people visit our beautiful church.

In what had been a promontory clifftop overlooking the north of the harbour and estuary of the River Wear, land was given by King Ecgfrith to bring learning, culture and the Christian religion to the north of Saxon Britain.

Steyning is now some five miles inland, but it was once busy with seagoing vessels, which moored in an inlet known as St Cuthman's Port.

One of the most impressive Victorian buildings in Sunderland, an elegant brick built basilica in Byzantine-Romanesque style that rises above the ranked terraces of Southwick.

The church opened in 1833 and was built to a design by the northeast's most eminent architect John Dobson.

St Edmund's is a rare example of a 13th century pilgrim's chapel and is also the home of a new gallery.

Very peaceful and welcoming medieval church, near to pup and shop.

Here is one of Pevsner’s twelve most important monuments in Britain, the 8th century, Anglo Saxon Bewcastle Cross, standing free in the churchyard where it has stood for nearly 1500 years.

A particularly important church building of more than special interest architecturally, designed by George Fellowes-Prynne, and consecrated in 1893.

St Richard's is an unusual church and well worth a visit.