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The church gives the impression of a typical English village church, sitting at an angle to the geometry of the surrounding roads within its church yard.

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.

A Catholic Church whose most famous priest, Father Thomas Byles, perished while ministering to those in need on the RMS Titanic and preached of the need for a spiritual lifeboat in troubled times.

The Good Shepherd owes its existence to Revd Samuel Andrew, vicar of nearby Tideswell in the late 19th century.

Built in 1975, St Philip’s is a small brick building with sloping roof bearing a single bell turret and a later extension.

300 years of history within this unique Presbyterian chapel, with its three tier pulpit and box pews.

This archetypal medieval church is set in the heart of the village. It abuts a clearly later square tower (1633) topped by a good spire and on the south side a chapel, refashioned in 1621, juts into the churchyard.

Built in 1958 by the architects Broadhead and Royle who wrote ‘the style stems from the early Christian columned halls of the 4th century but cannot be honestly placed in any historical style other than mid 20th century'.

The greatness of St James lies in its fine proportion, inventive and varied details, with an interior that is an exercise in chaste simplicity, beauty is in the traceried windows, reredos and Morris & Company window.

It is likely that there has been a church on this site from at least 1100, maybe earlier, when Hawkhurst belonged to the Abbot of Wye, and then of Battle.

A space of simplicity, versatility and invitation into the presence of God.

A long established community church with a warm welcome and a key archive to the area's history.