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Through its long and fascinating history the church, which is at the heart of Pontefract town centre, has continuously developed to meet the changing needs of the community it serves.

It is believed that Holy Trinity is one of the 'four voices of four hamlets round... the merry, merry bells of Yule' found within the poem 'In Memorium AHH' by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Holy Trinity has Saxon origins but the current building was built in the 11th and 12th centuries. In 1859 the church was extensively altered by Victorian architect James Fowler.

St Michael’s church is in the parish of Stowe Nine Churches, originally simply Stowe meaning ‘Christian Holy Place’.

In 1334 John de Harrington founded a chantry in this place, whereby the chaplain and his assistant were enabled to support themselves and pray daily for the souls of their founder and his family.

The church sits in a hollow amidst the rolling hills of the Wolds situated between Bigby and Grasby.

St John the Baptist, nestling in the rural Lincolnshire Wolds, tells the story of Sir Henry Vane, one of the first Governors of Massachusetts USA.

St Mary’s is a Commissioners Church dating from 1839.

A romantic church that stands alone, shorn of its former medieval village, looking out across the Capability Brown landscape of 1760’s toward Fawsley Hall, the seat of the Knightley family and now a country hotel.

A place of worship has stood on the site for 900 years although the present building, built of local greenstone, is mainly 14th century.

One of the outstanding late medieval churches in the county.