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The original St Edmund’s church and school were built to serve the 1,000 or so Roman Catholics living on the Isle of Dogs in about 1870.

There was mention of a church at Heage in 1545 when it was destroyed by a storm, sadly all that is left of this building is the east window.

Robert de Basford or de Ashby founded a Cistercian priory at Catesby in c1175 and endowed it partly with income from Basford, it is one of only four churches in England dedicated to St Leodegarius.

St Luke’s now has a brand new home: a place of welcome, hospitality and hope for the people of the Isle of Dogs.

The coastal parish of Climping (also spelled Clymping), just west of the River Arun, has a remarkably sturdy looking church that is said to have begun life as a Norman watchtower.

King Alfred is recorded as having bequeathed Lyminster to his nephew in 901, it was the site of a Benedictine nunnery, and the flint church we see today has Saxon origins as the present walls go back to about 1040.

Standing at the heart of the Brockley community, this impressive Victorian church, with it's landmark spire, is the custodian of the New Cross Fire memorial window.

A country gem from a gentler era.

Holy Trinity was built in the Gothic style from Kentish rag with white stone dressings and was consecrated in 1878.

A local treasure unchanged for 200 years.

A church at Holme Pierrepont, dedicated to St Edmund is first mentioned in the year 1201, it was rebuilt in 1666 and restored in 1878-1881.