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A Dorset gem saved by the ghost of Thomas Hardy.

One of the most powerful of Anglo Saxon churches in England, large in scale and bold in conception.

Aylesford Priory or 'The Friars' is the home to a small community of Carmelite Friars, who first came here in 1242.

In 739AD Aethelheard, king of the West Saxons, granted land for a monastery. In the early 900’s a cathedral was built, almost certainly of wood.

Iconic, numinous thousand year old church that is home to St Wite, Dorset's patron saint. It's been a site of pilgrimage since 881 AD miraculously surviving the upheaval of the Reformation. Pilgrims come from all over the world to seeking help and healing at her shrine.

A traditional Victorian church with a superb hall.

A hidden gem of tranquillity.

A beautiful downland church dating from the 12th century, very much at the heart of the small and active rural village of Compton in the South Downs National Park.

A beautiful Grade I, Saxon-Norman church with important medieval wall paintings, set in the very attractive, natural landscape of the South Downs.

The old church at Mereworth was found to spoil the view of John Fane, 7th Earl of Westmorland, from his splendid new Palladian house, so he demolished it (he had already done away with the old castle and the village) and built a new classical church, and a new village, nearby.