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Built between 1681 and 1684, this tiny meeting house, like most Quaker meeting houses, does not look at all like the usual idea of a church.

The church, dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch stands on a rise above the village, with recorded evidence of a moat and with the former large parsonage house and manor house in close proximity.

A church as broad as it is long.

The church was designed by Basil Spence, the architect of Coventry Cathedral, and was consecrated on the Eve of the Conversion of St Paul, January 24 1959.

The oldest part of the church dates from the 13th century.

The castle, long since ruined, was that of the Beauchamp family and once stood just above the church on the slopes of Bredon Hill.

There has been a church on this site since the reign of Edward the Confessor (1042-1066) and it is the only one noted in the Domesday Book as being in the ‘vast and ancient territory of Hallamshire’.

Midhopestones is a hamlet, high in the Pennines north west of Sheffield, St James is a tiny rugged church, surrounded by a picturesque graveyard.

A small stone church, St Mary's stands alone on the main road into the village.

The house has a wonderful atmosphere of calm, the people using it for worship are warm and friendly, and visitors leave feeling an inner peace.