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This amazing building is the surviving part of a Benedictine priory that was established here early in the 12th century as an offshoot of the great Norman abbey of Lessay in France, but it soon became independent.

Ludlow possesses one of the great parish churches of England, and one of the largest, St Laurence's, is known, with good reason, as the Cathedral of the Marches.

This splendid church is one of the greatest to be found in Oxfordshire.

St Mary’s is both an historic and active church that plays a major role in the life of the Long Crendon community.

St Julitta's dates back to Norman times and nestles peacefully in a river valley set in an ancient landscape.

On a sloping site in a wildflower speckled churchyard, Loxley's church has a battlemented tower that dates back to the 13th century.

‘Standing amidst its beautiful ‘God’s Acre’ where the memorials of the sleeping dead relieve the beautiful sylvan nature of the scene, and amidst typical Worcestershire scenery, few churches can boast of such lovely attributes of beauty' : Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Weekly Messenger, August 1895.

It is believed that the present building has its origins in 12th century but there was probably an earlier Anglo Saxon or even Celtic church, for the boundary of the original churchyard forms an almost perfect circle, a feature shared with many churches of known Celtic origin.

The land on which the church is built is said to have been a holy site since Saxon times, the earliest evidence of a church building on the site is from the 13th century.