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Step through a 12th century doorway into an oasis of calm where worship, history, wood and stones have tales to tell.

Designed by Paley and Austin and constructed between 1882-1885, this imposing sandstone building occupies a spectacular elevated position behind Dalton Castle and Market Place.

The Miner's Church.

A small stone church, St Mary's stands alone on the main road into the village.

All Saints is an impressive sight. A maypole stands in Church Street and is a rare survival, the tradition of the maypole goes back to the 17th century and May Day continues to be celebrated by the village.

The church of St Andrew was built in 1794 to replace earlier buildings on the site.

This delightful church is dedicated to St Alkmund, a prince of the Royal house of the Kingdom of Northumbria, born in about 770.

The church is built on the site of a Saxon place of worship, of which little remains, there is a priests door in the south wall with a preNorman tympanum which is probably the oldest part of the church.

Contains the only tomb to a member of the royal family in an English parish church.

With a history dating back over a thousand years, one of the largest parish churches in the country and one of England's Greater Churches.

The treasures inside include two notable medieval monuments to past rectors, the most prominent is of William de Harrington, who died around 1350, dressed in cassock and hood with a skull cap, his feet are supported on a bracket decorated with a green man and his head on a pillow supported on two angels.