Reaching St Peter's is a small adventure, leaving the modern world behind as you gets closer to the sea.
Bradwell on Sea, Essex
When the lane stops being metalled, a footpath continues to the little chapel, right beside the mudflats. This is one of the oldest churches in Britain. It is was built on the site of the gateway of a Roman fort and using its stone, sometime after 653.
The builder was St Cedd, from Lindisfarne, who founded many churches. Only the nave remains, but the outlines of the eastern apse, and of the north and south porticus can be seen on the ground. A monastery that was also here was destroyed during Danish raids in the 9th century.
The church was still in use in the 16th century, and partly owes its survival to its use as a seamark for fishermen and sailors. In the 17th century it became a barn, and holes were punched in the walls to make barn doors.
Restoration and reconsecration took place in 1920, and today the inside of the chapel is simple and serene, with benches and an altar and wall mounted crosses at the east end.
There is a popular, annual pilgrimage to the chapel from the village, and many people visit the chapel throughout the year on their own private pilgrimages.
City of London, Greater London
The Dutch Church is a reformed church on the site of the 13th century Augustinian friary, the original building granted to Protestant refugees for their church services in 1550 was destroyed during the London Blitz.
City of London, Greater London
The church lies over the remains of the Basilica, the northern most part of the great Roman Forum built in the first century AD.
Petrisw, Powys
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