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St Mary the Virgin, Marden is in a peaceful location on the east bank of the River Lugg and surrounded by farmland.

A beautiful sermon, expressed in stone.

A needle sharp spire with views over the Wye Valley.

A giant splinter of masonry clings to the side of the church here. Apart from the north aisle, which has been the parish church since the 15th century, it is all that remains of the great abbey church and its buildings that once stood on this site.

The church of St Mary the Virgin is mainly 13th and 14th century on Anglo Saxon foundations, with Victorian restoration after a devastating fire in 1840.

This peaceful little church was built in 1740 to replace one which was destroyed by the River Wye.

Gedney's elegant and beautifully decorated tower is crowned by a spire that is little more than a stump.

Standing alone in the fields, accessible only by very swampy footpaths, this charming small church was first built in 1727.

The church is the early 12th century and the subterranean charnel chapel houses one of only two remaining in situ medieval ossuaries (collections of human bones) in England.

A delightful example of a small Victorian rural church.

Architects Thomas Rickman and Henry Hutchinson built this village church on a cathedral scale in the 1820s.

The church of the Catesby family, whose manor is famous for the Gunpowder Plot Room where the conspirators formulated their plan, and where Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy were supposedly felled by a single shot here.