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Fairford's magnificent 'wool' church, rebuilt in the 1490s' and hardly altered since then, deserves a place in any roll call of fine Cotswold churches.

The exterior of St Mary's successfully blends elegant Perpendicular lines with rustic stone, partly fieldstone and partly a type of deep golden green sand known as carstone, which came from a nearby quarry known as The Butts.

This building has been recycled, it was first built in 1715, enlarged several times then moved here stone by stone in 1881.

The church of St Mary the Virgin lies at the centre of an ancient parish within an Anglo-Saxon royal estate and on the site of a late Anglo-Saxon minster from 950 or earlier.

Visit St Cyr's on the edge of the Cotswold Escarpment, nestled below Stinchcombe Hill, a beautiful church with stunning stained glass windows, recently reordered to be more accessible.

The cluster of seven Burnham parishes can be confusing, but each church (one a ruin) is distinctive; St Mary's has one of East Anglia's many round towers.

St Bartholomew is an ancient site of Christian gathering, its position adjacent to the sea, at the end of the long bay, makes it a striking landmark for those who travel by land and sea. You get a deep sense of rootedness, continuity and peace here.