Churches of the week

Lakeland church with its magnificent east window created by three master craftsmen who met up during a fishing holiday and decided to combine all their skills and talents together.

Sometimes it is not the heritage of the building or the stories it holds that makes it a church of the week, but the dedicated service from the people within it, in serving their community.

Hidden under the Black Mountains near Abergavenny is the tiny church of St Issui, an early hermit believed murdered by a passing traveller to whom he had given hospitality.

Gracing the shore of Scotland's longest loch, St Conan conceals an eclectic hotchpotch of ecclesiastic styles including Norman archways, Gothic flying buttresses, a Celtic cross and even a stone circle.

The Italian town of Ravenna’s ancient basilicas with their shimmering mosaics provided inspiration for Walter Loveridge Hodgkinson when he commissioned this church as a memory to his late wife, Catherine.

Only the nave and transepts remain of the magnificent medieval church known as St Machar's Cathedral. The ruined transepts hold tombs of medieval bishops, and the church boasts a unique flat-vaulted wooden ceiling with heraldic panels, crafted in 1520.

One of the leading Arts & Crafts buildings in England. A first impression is that of a traditional English thatched church. But step inside to understand why Pevsner called All Saints, "one of the most convincing and impressive churches of its date in any country."

The last surviving Waterloo church in Leeds and the winner of the best in church repair and conservation at the recent Celebration of Excellence UK Church Architecture Awards.

Standing in isolation on the shore of Bassenthwaite Lake, this must be one of the most beautifully situated churches in the UK.

A descendant of the royal princes of Powys, St Beuno was the most celebrated of the early Christian monks of North Wales. He founded his 'clas', a cross between a monastery and a college at Clynnog Fawr in 616.

Tucked away off the road and hidden behind the trees, lies the only thatched church in Lincolnshire.

The church is made with local Melverley oak and the entire structure is pegged together, not one nail being used.