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The church is at the centre of the village and since modernisation has been used as a community centre.

Congregationalists were gathering nearly 275 years ago in Tonbridge, eventually forming a church.

St Bartholomew's church is a 600 year old treasure house of alabaster tombs, medieval carving, history and scandal, often described as ‘The Westminster Abbey of the Midlands’.

Mighty medieval church deep in the countryside.

The chapel opened in 1847, designed by John Langdon.

St Peter's dates from the 12th century with later extensions, have an interesting font with a Spode font basin that was installed in 1814 and the front of the altar is formed from the tomb stone of the last abbess of Torksey.

The history of this unusual site with its two buildings begins in the 12th century when the order of St John of Jerusalem was given charge to build a preceptory.

St Matthias was built as a Chapel of Ease of St Mark, Torwood.

'The last Norman church built in Derbyshire, in 1923'.

The church at the heart of the town: every year, thousands of people visit our beautiful church.

The churchyard has a distinct curve to it perhaps following the shape of an underlying moat and ancient meeting place. An ancient Yew tree reckoned to be between 1,000 and 2,000 years old also stands in the churchyard.

Here is a large town church that speaks of the 15th century. In 1483 Edward V, the husband of Elizabeth Woodville of nearby Grafton Regis, gave a large grant of stone from the royal quarries nearby in Whittlebury.