Find a church

For a small village church, St James has an amazing wealth of stained glass.

A church is mentioned in Domesday, and later the Norman overlords built a small church of triassic sandstone probably on the site of the wide north aisle.

A beautiful small church where bodies from Bosworth Battlefield are buried.

A Christian presence here for a thousand years.

A lovely 13th century red sandstone church rebuilt in 1867 to the designs of the Worcester architect Abraham Perkins, in the early English style.

‘One of the loveliest churches in Leicestershire’ (Pevsner) with a rich history spanning over 800 years.

Bleddfa means 'the abode of wolves', and wolves were still to be found in Radnor Forest until Tudor times.

Built in 1833 by William Carus Wilson, Founder of the Clergy Daughters School, as school chapel and parish church with a strong connection with local heritage and Bronte sisters.

The ramblers church.

‘Standing amidst its beautiful ‘God’s Acre’ where the memorials of the sleeping dead relieve the beautiful sylvan nature of the scene, and amidst typical Worcestershire scenery, few churches can boast of such lovely attributes of beauty' : Bromsgrove, Droitwich and Redditch Weekly Messenger, August 1895.

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.

The beautiful Grade I church we see today, situated by the River Bela, is the result of additions and adaptations through the centuries.