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This tiny chapel ‘outside the gate', may well have been built as a chantry chapel in memory of Robert de Tattershall (the grandson of Hugh the Breton who founded Kirkstead Abbey) who died in 1212 and whose effigy it is thought to be, lies beside the altar.

Prominent because of its position and its slender, continental style spire, St Luke's stands on a small green hill and is known locally as 'the church on the hill'. The church's most spectacular feature is the decorated roof over the chancel, and it is blessed with a fine organ.

The last bomb site in Liverpool, St Luke's is testament to the brave people who lived and died during the May Blitz of 1941; as such it carries with it the legacy of those who formed the congregation and community for over a century before the start of the Second World War.

This church was consecrated by the Bishop of London on St Luke's Day, 18th October 1824 and was built because the original parish church (now known as Chelsea Old Church) was regarded as too small for the increasing population.

St Luke's Church, founded in the 12th century, is an old Catholic church, shared with the Orthodox since the 17th century. Offered to the town's Orthodox in the 19th century, the church still has a Catholic and an Orthodox altar. The church is exceptionally well preserved as it did not suffer major damage in the 1979 earthquake.

St Macartan's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of Clogher. The present cathedral was built in 1295, along with a small chapel or oratory. In 1622 the cathedral was found to be completely ruined and was rebuilt. The present cathedral dates mainly from 1744 when it was rebuilt by the architect James Martin.

St Macartan's Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral of Monaghan. It was built between 1861 and 1893 and is the only Catholic cathedral in the county. The architect James Joseph McCarthy (1817-1882) was in charge of the works and designed the cathedral in a 14th-century Gothic architectural style.

St Macartin's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of Enniskillen. The first church on the site of the present cathedral was built around 1627 as part of the town of Enniskillen. By 1832 the church had become structurally defective and was replaced by the present building, which was completed in 1842 as St Anne's Parish Church and re-consecrated as St Mac Cairthind's Cathedral in 1923, making it the second cathedral in the Diocese of Clogher.

The St Magdalene’s Church (in Dutch, Heilige Magdalenakerka is a Catholic building constructed between 1853 and 1856 by the English architect Thomas Harper King).

The first view one has of the village is that of the tower of the greenstone church of St Margaret with its dominating red clock. Created in 1787 by horologist Edmund Howard, the long drop clock is truly a remarkable piece of engineering.