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Built in 1860 to an Athony Salvin design the building replaced the earlier church dating to 1169.

St Helen's Cross is a beautifully preserved late 12th century stone, probably a votive cross to St Helen Empress and mother of the first Christian Emperor of Rome.

St Martin's church is a 'very remarkable building with windows glowing with gemstone colours' according to architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner.

Blanchland got its name from the white habits worn by monks of the Premonstratensian order who founded Blanchland Abbey.

The original parish church of Brampton lies within the site of a Roman fort about a mile west of the centre of the town.

A casualty of Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries, the only remaining part of the 12th century Premonstratensian Blanchland Abbey is part of the abbey church which today serves the parish of Blanchland.

A lovely peaceful little church in an idyllic setting.

The year 1750 is embossed in lead on the porch doorway and services are held once every fortnight. Inside there is a warm and welcoming atmosphere of a traditional country chapel complete with a pot bellied stove. Sheep and cattle graze in the next field and dry stone walls bound a woodland fringe and hay meadows. It is a place of peace and tranquillity.</span></span></p>

No visit to Whitby is complete until you have visited the old church on the East Cliff.

Whitby Abbey has been inspiring visitors for nearly 1500 years; now it’s your turn.