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This church is on the edge of woodland off a lane on the eastern slopes of Long Mountain, looking across the Wales/England border to the Long Mynd, south of Shrewsbury.

The first church on this site was completed in 1841 but suffered significant fire damage, in May 1891 it was reported that that the Vicar had ‘conducted a wedding in the ruins’.

A Victorian church, stone built, it was designed in the popular neo Gothic style of the 1840s.

Built in 1975, St Philip’s is a small brick building with sloping roof bearing a single bell turret and a later extension.

Garrison church to Norton Barracks and the Worcestershire Regiment the church underwent major restoration and rebuilding by W J Hopkins and Ewan Christian in 1875/76.

A very peaceful, minimalist building with clever use of glazing in the roof to produce beautiful light on a fine day.

Opened in 1887 largely to serve an area developed as a consequence of the work undertaken by the Bestwood Coal and Iron Company, founded in 1872.

St Peter’s is a large, Grade II Victorian church built between 1872 and 1879 to the design of George Edmund Street.

Very fine misericords and carvings, a wealth of medieval glass, a memorial to 266 miners and a peal of bells which is one of the Seven Wonders of Wales.

An imposing late Victorian intrigue of grandeur and simplicity on one site.

St Christopher’s is an early 20th century building serving a parish to the east of Nottingham city centre.