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A romantic church that stands alone, shorn of its former medieval village, looking out across the Capability Brown landscape of 1760's toward Fawsley Hall, the seat of the Knightley family and now a country hotel.

The present church is largely Victorian and is located at the highest point in the town. The spire predates the rest of the church. The church is the Garrison Church of the Lancashire Fusiliers and the Regimental Colours hang in the nave.

St Mary's church was originally founded in the 7th century and was mentioned in the Domesday Book.

A thrilling experience: Sir Ninian Comper's masterpiece built between 1908 and 1930. It is a free essay in the gothic style fearlessly mixed with classical appropriations.

In 1845, the Reverend Patrick Bront, father of the famous novelist sisters Charlotte, Anne and Emily Bronte, appointed the curate the Revd Joseph Brett Grant to take charge of the newly formed Ecclesiastical district now known as Oxenhope.

The church of St Mary the Virgin lies at the centre of an ancient parish within an Anglo-Saxon royal estate and on the site of a late Anglo-Saxon minster from 950 or earlier. For almost a thousand years St Marys has played its part at the centre of the village of Bampton in Oxfordshire, and today it continues to be a vibrant influence within the local community as well as a beautiful centrepiece to the village.

St Mary's has stood here for at least 800 years. The name Eccles itself is derived from a primitive Welsh word borrowed from the Latin meaning 'a church'.

St Mary the Virgin, Lowgate, Hull, is an ancient church dating back to the early 14th century, although it is believed a chapel may have existed on the same site before this. The parish now includes the many and various offices, businesses and residences located in the Old Town of Kingston upon Hull.

Visitors come to the church of St Mary the Virgin, Iffley for many reasons, but primarily for the extraordinary beauty of the building and for its sense of spirituality. The church is one of the most spectacular Romanesque parish churches in England. Its timeless rural setting does nothing to prepare you for the shock of the west front of the church and the riot of 12th century carving both outside and inside the building.

The present St Mary's was opened in 1895, but a medieval stone and tile in the porch are clues to the parish's much longer story. Cuddington is believed to mean ‘Cuda's farm'. Cuda was perhaps an Anglo-Saxon who founded a settlement in today's Nonsuch Park. The first church was built of wood, before the Norman Conquest. It was replaced with a stone church around 1100, rebuilt around 1250; this medieval church stood until 1538.