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The building stands within an extensive, peaceful churchyard and forms the heart of the village of Newton Ferrers on the banks of the River Yealm in South Devon on the South Devon Coastal Path and in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The church has been dated to the 15th century, with the nave and chancel possibly of an earlier date.

A church has existed on this site since Saxon times, but the oldest part of the present building dates from 1144.

The mines are gone but the church still stand proudly on the hillside and welcoming everyone who wishes to enter.

Gothic revival church built in 1912.

St Petroc’s church is the largest and one of the oldest parish churches in Cornwall.

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.

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.

A vast imposing Victorian church with noted features.

Nothing can be more peaceful to behold than the little church at Colintraive, situated by the shores of the Kyles of Bute, clearly visible from the sea against a dark background of trees.