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Cheshire's finest parish church dates largely from the mid to late 14th century and, like so many Cheshire churches, it is built of sandstone.

Very much the village church and open daily, St John’s strives to be at the heart of the whole rural community it serves.

On a sloping site in a wildflower speckled churchyard, Loxley's church has a battlemented tower that dates back to the 13th century.

It is believed that the present building has its origins in 12th century but there was probably an earlier Anglo Saxon or even Celtic church, for the boundary of the original churchyard forms an almost perfect circle, a feature shared with many churches of known Celtic origin.

The church gives the impression of a typical English village church, sitting at an angle to the geometry of the surrounding roads within its church yard.

This is a building to delight all those visitors who enjoy church architecture purely for its own sake.

St Andrew’s has gained international fame when it was chosen by Hornby, the model train makers, to be the church for their model village of Skeldale.

From the 13th century, established under the Abbey of Winchcombe, to the current day, the church has been and still is the centre of the community in Great Alne.

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

Dating back to the 12th century, the magnificent monastic church that survived the dissolution of this Benedictine Abbey.

St Mary church was built c1200 in the Early English style and still has on one of the original window sills scroll work from this era.

While St Clement’s is a relatively new building, the history of a parish church in Chorlton goes back a long way.