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The 'Crooked Spire' is one of Derbyshire's best known landmarks, it's 228 feet high and leans 9 feet 6 inches from its true centre.

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 Bolsover Colliery Company gave the site and £3,000 for the building of this miners’church, in red brick, which was dedicated in 1928.

A church is known to have stood on this site since before the compiling of the Doomsday Book in which Patcham was registered as Piceham.

A beautifully light open and simple Norman church recorded as being part of an endowment in 1090.

A 13th century church that is recorded in the Doomsday Book.

Dates from the 13th century and is thought to have replaced an earlier Saxon preaching cross, the remains of which are preserved in a glass case in the south transept.

The beautiful church of St Christopher's, built in 1320, is unique in Essex as it shares a churchyard with the older St Andrew's.

Mainly Norman, with traces of reused Roman brick, St Andrew's has a pretty clapboard bell turret and porch, and shares a churchyard with the later church of St Christopher.