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Used daily for prayer and worship. Sited in the heart of this Shropshire market town adjacent to a medieval motte castle mound, there has been a church on this site since Saxon times.

The story of St Helen's is very much tied to the story of the ruined castle just to the south as both castle and church were built in the 1470s by Lord Hastings.

The parish church of St James dates from the 14th century with a 15th century tower.

Acton Burnell Castle was the home of Robert Burnell, a close associate of Edward I who became Lord Chancellor and Bishop of Bath and Wells.

Cheshire's finest parish church dates largely from the mid to late 14th century and, like so many Cheshire churches, it is built of sandstone.

Described by Pevsner as ‘one of the most exciting Cheshire churches’ with plenty of bosses and also some dainty openwork pendants’.

Spectacular memorials and Norman monsters.

Roger de Montgomery, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, owned most of Shropshire, and it was he who founded this Benedictine abbey in 1083, he is said to have been buried here when he died in 1094.

St Mary’s is as good an introduction to the development of Gothic architecture through the ages as you are likely to find anywhere.

Kinlet church no longer has a village around it, but stands in a rather remote location in the grounds of Kinlet Hall.

St Peter’s is an outstanding Georgian town church in the centre of Congleton.

The Edwardian façade hides a much older building.