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The church is a sole survivor of a complex of medieval and Jacobean buildings which constituted first Warkworth Castle and from the 17th century a large Jacobean house.

There has been a place of worship on the cathedral site since at least the 8th century, although no part of any building earlier than the 11th century bishop’s chapel survives.

This is a quintessential Borders church, built of red sandstone with a sturdy, castle like tower, and in a very rural setting. Its nave is Norman, the chancel a little later, and the tower later still.

St Peter's was founded in 1074 and is the oldest and largest parish church in the city.

Benedictine monasticism was part of the landscape of medieval Britain, but the Dissolution of the Monasteries brought an end to monastic life in England and Wales.

All Saints has been a focus of Hereford life for over 800 years, its dramatic twisted spire dominates the skyline, and the medieval interior is an inspired meeting of the sacred and the secular.

The churchyard here is famously said to have inspired Thomas Gray to write his Elegy in a Country Churchyard in 1750, and he is buried close to the east wall of the church.

Reached along tiny, winding flower filled lanes (or by footpath), this medieval church sits on a south facing slope looking over a tiny valley to the slopes of the Sugar Loaf mountain.

The parish church of Buckinghamshire's county town, St Mary's is used for all ceremonial county services, dominating the old part of Aylesbury.

Our visitors describe this as a beautiful church, it is on the outskirts of the city centre, outside the old city walls, a peaceful, genuinely restful building.

Pyrford's church retains the shape it had when first built in Norman times, apart from the addition of a bell turret and north porch in Tudor times, and a vestry in the 19th century.

A church at the centre of a pretty village outside Cowbridge with interesting features.