Churches of the week

Winner of the National Churches Trust Competition 2021.

Providing a 24/7 food delivery service to those of the parish who are in need, St Laurence serves its community even when the foodbanks are closed.

Colourful Staffordshire church, designed by a young Arts & Crafts architect and built by unemployed men in the Potteries during the Great Depression.

A choir of 128 intricately carved medieval angels look down from the double hammer-beam roof of this most picturesque of Suffolk churches.

The outstanding feature of the church is the stunning murals in the chancel painted in 1904-5 by the Edinburgh artist Phoebe Anna Traquair.

Voted as UK's best maintained church and Winner of the Nayler Awards for Excellence in Church Maintenance 2021.

Standing supremely in Salford with its spire soaring 240 feet towards the sky, first time visitors could be excused for thinking they have seen St John the Evangelist before. Designer Matthew Ellison cherry picked the best of other northern churches for his wonderful creation.

Winner of the UK Church Architect Presidents' Award for the major reordering project which included the creation of a new altar table.

One of the hidden gems of Norman architecture and once a resting place for weary pilgrims en route to Thomas a Becket's shrine at Canterbury.

London’s ancient parish church once standing 'all alone, as utterly forsaken, old and weather-beaten' is as witness to the growing prosperity of this lively part of the City.

One of the oldest places of Christian worship in Western Europe, there has been a church on the cliffs of Heysham since at least the 8th century. But was it earlier than that? Legend states that in the 5th century, St Patrick becoming shipwrecked off Heysham, came ashore and built a chapel overlooking Morecambe Bay.

Standing on a concrete base with stones from Bardney Abbey in its foundations, this delightful church was built as a temporary structure in 1898 by the villagers and the local carpenter Richard Turner.