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The church building occupies a dominant site in the village.

Unique Grade II* early Victorian gothic church in Early English style by William Ranger, with landmark brick spire and striking interior telling the story of Anglican catholic worship from the mid 19th century up to the present day.

With a history reaching to the dawn of Christianity in Craven, this magnificent building tells a thousand year story with mediaeval piety and Tudor jerry building.

St John's has an unusual looking exterior as it has a slim tower in comparison to the nave.

Located in the heart of Bury St Edmunds, the abbey was once one of the richest and most powerful Benedictine monasteries in England.

St George's was built in 1951.

St Thomas church, with its unusual layout and ceiling, is a wonderful place to meet together for worship or to trace the industrial history of Stanningley.

In the late 1200s the Archbishop of Canterbury established a college here for a master and six canons (priests), which accounts for the large size of this church, and also accounts for the timber framed houses opposite, which were where the master and his canons lived.

The present day church of St Michael & All Angels is in a very different form to the original building but remains a holy place of great beauty.

Just one mile east of the tourist hotspot of Lavenham, St Mary’s possesses hidden gems with the earliest and finest set of altar wall paintings in England (according to experts).

This Grade I listed building has many 13th century exterior features and was built on the site of an earlier Saxon church with a Saxon coffin being found at the base of the tower.

Although there is mention of a church in Barnby Dun in the Domesday Book, the present building is mainly 14th century, although the tower is 13th century.