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Like so many Romney Marsh churches this one seems far bigger than any population at any time could have justified, but in medieval times this was a rich and very busy landscape, filled with people who needed a place to worship.

This little church was declared redundant in 1983, but was saved from secular use by the Romney Marsh Historic Churches Trust, which now maintains it.

St Johns is a welcoming, inclusive church in a superb 20th century building where our worship is in the open Anglo Catholic tradition.

Although there was an important Saxon church here, the present building dates mainly from the 1130s.

All of the other Romney Marsh churches are in Kent, but this one is in East Sussex, and it is one of the latest, built in 1505 on land reclaimed from the sea.

Set in the heart of Rye, surrounded by narrow streets lined with picturesque houses, St Mary's is a natural magnet for visitors to the ancient Cinque port.

Small Arts & Crafts style church with charming wooden lychgate fronting the road.

The church of St Paternus stands in pretty countryside, with a churchyard that was almost certainly an early Celtic holy site, as evidenced by the circular shape of the enclosure.

In the late 1200s the Archbishop of Canterbury established a college here for a master and six canons (priests), which accounts for the large size of this church, and also accounts for the timber framed houses opposite, which were where the master and his canons lived.

It can't have been easy being a Roman Catholic in Brixham for it was here, in 1688 that the protestant King William of Orange landed with 35,000 troops to begin the march on London which ended hopes of a catholic succession.