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Visitors to Holy Rood are often caught quite unawares by their first sight of the interior where a wealth of brick, marble and wood, convey a sense of splendour and dignity, in direct contrast to the exterior which is plain and almost unadorned.

This church closed in 1997 but a community effort resulted in the church reopening in 2009.

A small Gothic Revival design of the turn of the 20th century, built for Anglican worship and acquired for Roman Catholic use in the 1970s.

Dewsbury Minster is a grade II listed building and has been a place of worship in the area since 627AD when St Paulinus preached at the crossing point of the River Calder at Dewsbury.

The church was built in 1825, with seating for 350 people, a schoolroom and classrooms that were opened later, in 1852. It was built as an impressive town centre Congregational Chapel.

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was one of 19th century England's foremost architects, a proponent of Gothic Revival, and the mastermind behind the Houses of Parliament in London.

Dating back to 1226, a Norman built building which houses the grand tomb of George Herbert's parents and a robbers grave in the churchyard.

St Mary's is the civic church of Barnsley and provides a place of worship, peace and quiet in the town centre.

St Wystan's has a fascinating and complex history, much of it forgotten or misunderstood until Dr Harold Taylor began to study it in the 1930s'.

St Mary’s was founded in 1170 by the Norman Lord, William de Lovetott. Of this church, only part of the chancel and the lower part of the tower remain.