Find a church

A Grade II listed church built in 1789 to a stark Georgian style and later tower hiding a beautiful interior with a tiered gallery, Venetian east window and seating for 1000 persons.

We welcome visitors, including those of other faiths (we recognise much of beauty, truth and goodness in the other world faiths) to our church. Friendly dogs are welcome.

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.

The Domesday Survey of 1086 records 'In Braduelle there is a church and a priest'.

Quintessentially characteristic Early English and Decorated church overlooking the Vale of Belvoir.

Before 1868 local people had to walk to Kirkburton to go to church.

The village was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ‘Ferlei’ or ‘Fereleia’ which is thought to mean either ‘lea of the ferns’ or ‘the far lea’.

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.

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.

Dedicated to a saint with connections to King Arthur and a popular pilgrimage site during the Middle Ages, St Derfel's is famous for its 'fasting woman' and its medieval relic that has a connection to a grisly execution.

The Pales Quaker Meeting House was built in 1717 and has been in continuous use as a place of worship since that time, the thatched building and attached cottage are Grade II* listed buildings and the adjacent graveyard has been in use since the mid 1600s.

Cromwell, a small village of around 200 inhabitants, lies to the west of the Trent about five miles north of Newark.