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In what had been a promontory clifftop overlooking the north of the harbour and estuary of the River Wear, land was given by King Ecgfrith to bring learning, culture and the Christian religion to the north of Saxon Britain.

A beautiful Victorian church built in 1876 with awesome stained glass windows, a fantastic roof and a great historic organ.

St Nicholas shares a chalk hilltop with the ruins of the castle; both were built soon after the Norman Conquest by William de Braose, a close associate of William the Conqueror.

Loddon is a large village on the River Chet, and its church is a handsome building in a big churchyard just off the High Street.

Following a fire, set by arsonists in 2006, the repairs to one of Cumbria's largest parish churches continues and the building is once again open to visitors, who are uplifted and captivated by its remarkable space.

Selsey was an island when the Christian missionary St Wilfrid landed there in the 6th century and the monastery he founded was an important Christian centre.

Designed by London architects JER and CP Cutts, the building contains work by Sir Ninian Comper, Martin Travers and Sir William Milner & Romilly Craze.

St Mary's has been at the heart of the community for many centuries and is an important historic treasure of Tyneside.

One of the most impressive Victorian buildings in Sunderland, an elegant brick built basilica in Byzantine-Romanesque style that rises above the ranked terraces of Southwick.

A Thomas a Becket connection.

Interesting Georgian church to a design by Ignatius Bench in 1823 and reordered to ecclesiastical principles in 1894.

All Saints was designed in the Early English style by John Dobson and was consecrated in October 1849.