St Nicholas
Loxley, Warwickshire
On a sloping site in a wildflower speckled churchyard, Loxley's church has a battlemented tower that dates back to the 13th century.
Thirty years later, one of the greatest Victorian church architects, Sir George Gilbert Scott, added a chancel that completed the gothic effect.
The east window depicts the life of St Peter, but it had to be pieced back together after an American Flying Fortress aircraft crashed nearby in World War II, blowing out the glass.
Such a large church in such a modest village is accounted for by the fact that it was funded by the Lucy family of nearby Charlecote Park. A member of the family was rector at Hampton Lucy for 59 years; at that time most of the villagers were employees of the estate.