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One of the most important examples of Anglo Saxon in Britain and certainly the largest, dating from the late 8th to early 9th century.

A Norman church with interesting features and artefacts which seeks to serve the local community.

St Mary's is a friendly, welcoming church with real people and community roots.

A church that lost its village.

All Saints has one of the most celebrated of all Saxon towers, dating from about 970, famous for its age as for the decorative stonework patterns of vertical lines and rounded and diamond shapes that rise up the tower.

Built to the orders of one man, Anthony Catesby (1500-1554) of the significant Northamptonshire Catholic family whose main seat was at Ashby St Ledger and were later famous for their involvement in the Gunpowder Plot.

Preston, the priests farm, was also known formerly as Preston juxta Northampton and Preston Juxta Piddington, it is first referred to in the Domesday Book (1086) as Prestone.

At first glance the church at Denton might look medieval but in fact all of it, apart from the 13th century tower, was rebuilt in 1827/28 by Charles Squirhill.

Whilst the tower is medieval the church was so rebuilt in the 17th and 18th century that that is its overriding appearance.

The church dates from around 1300 but it is the intervention of the Spencer family of nearby Althorp that transformed the medieval building. Sir John Spencer (d1522) rebuilt the chancel and commenced the funerary chapel that lies adjacent to it.

A beautiful 16th century church offering quiet space for personal reflection and a range of services.

The church which lies adjacent to the House but which it antedates by some 400 years, must have been used by the Bishops of Coventry whose seat this was before the advent of the Comptons in the 16th century.