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An imposing Grade II listed building of modern gothic design with much history, offering a warm welcome to its many visitors.

‘Few churches in South Yorkshire contain more that may delay and interest the curious inquirer than this country chapel’. so the great historian Joseph Hunter wrote in 1831.

800 years old, small and beautiful.

A beautiful early Victorian Gothic Revival Church designed by architectural pioneers Messrs. Weightman & Hadfield of Sheffield.

Little is known about the early history of the church.

The church sits close to Kirtling Towers, a large Tudor gatehouse and the most substantial remaining part of a castle and great house that was the seat of the North family.

The mixture of informal path over a little bridge into a churchyard full of trees and shrubs is the perfect introduction to the military looking Norman tower.

Queen Etheldreda was foundress and abbess of Ely and it was here that she restored an old church and built her monastery.

A friendly, welcoming, thriving Methodist church serving a growing community on the outskirts of Burnley.

St Leonard’s is a very interesting old church with Saxon origins dating back to 900AD as well as a number of periods of construction that can be seen in its walls, including signs of a Norman apse.

The earliest reference to a church in Cawthorne can be found in the Domesday Book of 1086, the current church is the third to stand on this site.

Our church building, opened in 1819 originally seated 1500, oday the interior has been tastefully reordered to make it suitable for a wider range of activities for people of all ages; there are activities most days of the week and the church is opened regularly for viewing.