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A church existed on this site in the 13th century, originally as a chapel of ease.

Built on high ground outside the current village centre with views south across the Rother valley, and north and west across the Weald, with the unusual five sweep Sandhurst windmill on the horizon.

The tall, graceful spire is visible for miles around, it was used by sailors and others returning by boat along the river Great Ouse to the port of St Ives as a welcoming landmark, and it may even have had a lit beacon to aid their way.

A late 12th and early 14th century stone built church with an unusual bullet shaped spire, set in the High Weald AONB on the Kent and Sussex border path.

St Martin’s, dubbed the ‘hidden gem’ in Marple, is a simple Pennine sandstone building in the Arts & Crafts style, with windows and artefacts from that era.

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 centrally situated village church.

On a gentle hill in the village of Eyam in Derbyshire’s beautiful Peak District, Eyam is noted for the historical reality of the plague in 1665-66.

Hidden away on Week Street this church is much more than appears from the street.