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The present church is Victorian, built in the 1860s and dedicated in 1868, but it replaced a Norman church about which, unfortunately, very little is known.

At the annual meeting of the Preston District Congregational Union in 1871, strong representations were made as to the necessity of building a chapel in Grange over Sands with services starting eventually in a room at the Liberal Club 1889, thanks to a grant from the Union.

Grange Methodist Church (1874) is the second oldest church in Grange over Sands, located in the town centre on one of the main shopping streets.

Appearances can be deceptive as, although rather unprepossessing on the outside, when you enter St Mary's church you’ll be greeted with the glorious colours of the ceilings, panelling and stained glass windows.

The parish church is an attractive building in a prominent position next to the clock tower in the centre of Grange over Sands.

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.