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A Grade II listed church described by Pevsner as having the ‘usual west tower with eight pinnacles’.

The church is a wonderful example of 1930s church architecture, of traditional and Art Deco construction.

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.

A rural church in the heart of a village with churchyard.

First mentioned in 1037 by Archbishop Aethelnoth and containing what is debatably the earliest image of St Thomas Becket this fine Norman/Saxon church with Butterfield updates is one of the five Jane Austen churches and sits picturesquely next to the River Stour.

The name Elsecar is thought to mean ‘Elsi’s marsh’. Elsi was a Saxon lord who owned land here and ‘car’ is an old word for low, swampy ground.

A Christian place of worship for well over 1000 years, with monastic foundations prior to 1066, All Saints Silkstone is well worth discovery.

A traditional Methodist church in the heart of the Pennines with warm hospitality and spectacular views.

The village was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as ‘Ferlei’ or ‘Fereleia’ which is thought to mean either ‘lea of the ferns’ or ‘the far lea’.

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.

Still Norman in feel despite Victorian restoration in 1876, Burmarsh church is entered through a Norman doorway over which is carved a face that looks anything but friendly.

‘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.