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This is a Queen Anne church, in the Bollingbroke style, which is rare in the provinces, but full of natural light.

St Nicholas has been at the centre of the community of Thorne for around 1000 years, remains found in the area show that Thorne became a settlement in Anglo Saxon times.

There has been a Christian church on this site since at least 633 AD, as recorded by the Veneral Bede who mentioned that there was a church and a priest during the time of the Battle of Hatfield in that same year.

Come and explore our beautiful, almost untouched, example of a medieval parish church.

The church was originally built in 1647 but virtually rebuilt in 1882 by the architect Edward Witts.

On a gentle hill in the village of Eyam in Derbyshire’s beautiful Peak District, Eyam is noted for the historical reality of the plague in 1665-66.

The Good Shepherd owes its existence to Revd Samuel Andrew, vicar of nearby Tideswell in the late 19th century.

The church is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. A church of some kind has stood here on this site for over 1,000 years.