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St Simon's Church was built in 1865-66 in granite and Caen stone. It was designed by the architect, George Frederick Bodley, whose designs for the restoration of the Town Church had earlier been rejected.

A fine church built in 1870, designed by James Fowler of Louth. Built of local red brick with stone banding from the previous church on the same spot. St Stephen's church includes a beautiful rounded apse with stained glass windows at the east end.

Old Radnor was an important centre of Welsh princedom of Powys before the Normans arrived and would have had a castle or administrative buildings. Across the lane from the church is a raised earth platform with a ditch around it that some have suggested was where the castle stood.

Nothing prepares you, as you climb the 13 steps up to St Stephen's, for the majestic space within. Because it was never intended to stand alone, the exterior is roughly finished. But inside, the dome is Wren's finest, based on his original design for St Paul's.

This 19th-century church is one of the religious structures saved from demolition during the communist regime.

St Stephen's church is located in Higham, a village in Suffolk just to the south of the A14 main road halfway between Bury St Edmunds and Newmarket.

Famously described by Sir John Betjeman as the 'least spoilt church in Cornwall', the building dates back to the late 15th century, with fragments of an earlier 14th century church incorporated into the current structure.

Now you see it, now you don't! An unusual and fascinating church, effectively a medieval church encased in a Georgian red brick shell in 1758. St Swithins still holds many treasures inside its walls and the trouble taken to obtain the key and open the Norman west door is well worth the effort.

Christian witness may have taken place on this site since Roman times. The first church was built soon after 971 AD and dedicated to the memory of Swithin, Bishop of Winchester from 852 to 862. The foundations of this Saxon church lie beneath the floor of the crypt.

St Swithin's church is located in the small village of Ashmanhaugh, a mile west to the A1151 Wroxham to Stalham road.