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The diminutive St Mary Magdalene’s is a weather-beaten majesty. Externally, it’s a patchwork of nibbled clunch, brick, the odd flint nugget, and islands of lime render. Its design incorporates embattled

On a frosty morning in January 1757, Sutterby church witnessed a double ceremony. The churchwarden William Rhoades recorded the events with a heavy heart under his own signature. His son,

You’ll find the church at Llangeview down a single-track country lane. In an ancient circular churchyard, it sits softly resplendent. Its Old Red Sandstone walls are stippled with uneven grains

Long Crichel is a small and rather sleepy village in the Cranborne Chase. Shockwaves must have rippled through its country lanes in 1945, when a group of artists, critics, authors

Why Churches, by Andy Marshall @fotofacadeChurches taught me how to use a camera. With churches, as the purest water is filtrated through stone and shale, so they do with light.

In churches all across this island are traces of rood-screens. Sometimes just the rood-beam remains, sometimes high in a wall a door that leads to nowhere...In Wales, we have eight

Locked within the airfield at St Athan is a tiny, decaying church.It dates to the 13th century, but now it’s tangled in barbed wire, its roof is sheeted in tin,

In the Middle Ages, babies were exorcised in the church porch. This took place before baptism, to banish the devil from the new-born so it could be brought safely into

On a roadside outside Halifax is a tower. It’s a landmark, but it looks a little lost. Inside is a plaque remembering a woman called Ann. Until recently few knew

Perched on a cliff overlooking the Derwent Valley is a small chapel. Hidden behind trees and draped in ivy, is a jewel of the Arts & Crafts movement. This private

What makes St Baglans special? Is it the sentient landscape? The ancient, shady mountains that watched humans arrive. The clump of gnarled trees stretching their branches protectively around the church.

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