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A church has stood here since 1115, at the centre of a cluster of buildings, including manor house, guild house and rectory, all still surviving. Listed grade I, the church helps tell a country's story through the eyes of single village, through its courtiers, soldiers, statesmen, politicians or priests whose lives appear on memorials or through its changing architecture, brasses, carvings, effiigies and windows.

The manor of Plymtree predates Domesday. The present church of St John the Baptist dates from 14th century and replaced a much earlier structure. The first rector, Johel Walerande, was appointed on 9th April 1261. The arched doorway in the north wall is probably all that remains of his church, but the yew tree in the churchyard has been dated at over 1100 years old and would have been 400 when Johel arrived!

St John the Baptist's Church is located in Morningthorpe, a Norfolk village about 2 miles east of Long Stratton.

Simon Jenkins, when chairman of the national trust, wrote 'Thaxted is the queen of Essex and her crown is the church'. Thaxted church is one of the grandest in the county of Essex, 183 feet long and 87 feet wide.

A magnificent Grade I listed church, designed by Brookes, with fantastic sculpture by Taylerson. Complete as a vision, it draws the visitor in.

The church of St John the Divine was planted as a daughter church of St Matthew, Rastrick around 90 years ago.

This small village church was built as a temporary structure in 1898 by the villagers and the local carpenter Richard Turner, at a cost of about £130. It stands on a concrete base with stones from Bardney Abbey embedded in its foundations. The building is unique in that it does not require Faculty. There is a new five panel stained glass window commissioned in 2014 to commemorate the 100 years of World War I.

St John is situated at the top of Lemon Street in Truro. When St John was built in 1828 it was a simple rectangular block with a whitewashed interior and balconies on the north and south sides.

The Saint-John-Evangelist church in Tervuren has a long and interesting history. Throughout the centuries, many things have changed and different building styles can still be found. The oldest remaining part of the church is the Romanesque tower, which dates from the 13th century. The west façade is Classical and dates from 1779. The rest of the building was built in the Gothic style. Originally there were three tombs of important Brabant dukes, but these were destroyed during the iconoclastic period in the 16th century. A unique feature can be found right outside the north side of the church. In 1897, there was a World Fair and a total of 267 Congolese were brought to Tervuren to live in ‘traditional villages’. This exposition was an attempt of King Leopold II to justify colonialism in his ‘Belgian Congo’. Seven of the transferred Congolese did not survive the summer and were buried next to the church.

St John the Evangeslist's church is located in Piddinghoe, a village in Sussex on the River Ouse and about a mile north of Newhaven.