The present church was built in the Decorated style in 1891 on the site of a previous Georgian church built in 1733 by Revesby Abbey estate owner Joseph Banks, the great grandfather of naturalist Sir Joseph Banks.
Revesby, Lincolnshire
The 1733 church was built on the site of an even earlier church. The parish of Revesby includes the site of the Cistercian abbey of St Mary & St Lawrence, founded in 1142 and colonised by monks from Rievaulx Abbey. The abbey was suppressed through the 1538 Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act.
The church you see today was provided by James Banks Stanhope and Edward Stanhope and completed in 1892. It was built mainly of Ancaster stone to designs by Charles Hodgson Fowler of Durham.
There is a monument to Joseph Banks (1665-1727), a Norman font and a pretty reredos with gilded angels and mother of pearl inlay. Fragments of Revesby Abbey can be seen as reset masonry in the tower of the church. Nearby is the Joseph Banks Almhouse, another grade II listed building. You can still see the original foundation stone is above the doorway.
City of London, Greater London
The Dutch Church is a reformed church on the site of the 13th century Augustinian friary, the original building granted to Protestant refugees for their church services in 1550 was destroyed during the London Blitz.
City of London, Greater London
The church lies over the remains of the Basilica, the northern most part of the great Roman Forum built in the first century AD.
Yr Orsedd, Clwyd
Adeiladwyd yr eglwys gyntaf ar y safle hwn yn 1841, ond fe’i difrodwyd yn ddifrifol gan dân. Yn ôl yr hanes, ym mis Mai 1891, cynhaliodd y Ficer ‘briodas yn yr adfeilion’.
