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"Few churches in South Yorkshire contain more that may delay and interest the curious inquirer than this country chapel." So the great historian Joseph Hunter wrote of St Mary's Worsbrough in 1831. Is it true? Come and see for yourself.

Close to the River Bain, a church has been on this site for about 900 years. Kirkby was mentioned in the Doomsday book in 1085, and it is quite certain that a church stood here in Saxon days. The present church of St Mary was built around 1802.

St Mary's church stands on the site of much older places of worship. The first documented place of worship here was established by Sir Robert de Rockley in 1412. This was a private chantry chapel.

A church at Wilsford is mentioned in Domesday Book, but the building dates to the 11th - 15th centuries, with a restoration in 1860 by Kirk and Parry.

The Roman Catholic Church sought to tackle Manchester's deepest troubled area which lay between Deansgate and Albert Square. A church was built in 1794 in Mulberry Street on a site crowded in by intensive poor quality housing on land which had so recently been open meadow and grazing pasture.

St Mary & All Saints is one of the finest structures in Northamptonshire. It has much to offer visitors with it's royal connections. The church with its distinctive octagonal lantern tower stands between the River Nene and the Willow Brook and looks out across idyllic countryside. Mary Queen of Scots was executed at nearby Fotheringhay Castle. Richard III was born in Fotheringhay.

Wilmington is a Downland village of Saxon origin. The present church was first built around 1200 as a chapel to the adjacent Priory, the chancel being used as the monk's quire and the nave to accommodate parishioners. A notable feature of the churchyard is the ancient Yew tree, estimated to be 1600 years old, the trunk having a girth of 23ft.

The Mary church dates from the 14th century. In 1740, some baroque altars were added to the building. The church owes its current state to the renovation that took place after the earthquake in 1880.

St Mary in the Baum, on St Mary's Gate, was founded in 1740 as a chapel of ease to minister to the people living north of the River Roch. Today's church, designed by eminent church architect Sir Ninian Comper, was opened in 1911, described as 'a place rich in Comperisms'.

St Mary's church is the oldest parish church in Stockport. It stands in Churchgate overlooking the market place and is Grade I listed. A church was on the site by 1190 but of this church only the original oratory (which is now an annex to the vestry) remains.