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St Andrew's Church serves a village of approximately 1200 people. It is a well loved and well used building, with a very active congregation.

Hagbourne parish church was built, or rebuilt, at the beginning of the 12th century, and consisted then of a nave and chancel. Only a few walls remain from this time.

Mells is a picturesque rural village in the Mendip hills. A walk through the village to the church is one of the prettiest in Somerset, up a medieval street and historic buildings around the churchyard. From the churchyard you can glimpse the manor house, held by the Horner family (associated with the Rhyme Little Jack Horner) and their descendants, the Asquiths since the 16th century. They include Sir Herbert Asquith, Prime Minister.

The original parish church was situated to the south of the present building and went into ruins in the early 1800s. By 1816 a brick shed on the site had been converted for use as a mortuary chapel. When the graveyard was enlarged in 1871 this building was replaced by the small brick building which we see today.

Ashby Puerorum, Ashby 'of the boys', is so called because in the late thirteenth century the living was appropriated to provide an endowment for the boy choristers of Lincoln Cathedral. Ashby is a remote hamlet and its medieval church of St Andrew is approached across a farmyard. The churchyard affords fabulous views across the Wolds.

Welcome to St. Andrews church, Greensted, The oldest wooden church in the world, and the oldest ‘Stave Built' timber building in Europe. The church represents some 1300 years of English history and Christian worship.

A church has stood here since Saxon times. After the Norman Conquest of 1066 it belonged to Battle Abbey in Sussex, then the Priory of St Nicholas Exeter who were the Patrons until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536. The town dates back to the Roman period, there was a fort on the hill above the town and occupation in the centre. ‘Columtune' was also mentioned in Alfred the Great's will in 872 AD.

Beautifully set in a pretty, rambling, village, and with an early 16th century priests' house next door, St Andrew's is an exceptionally attractive church, and has one of only three medieval spires to be found in Dorset.

St Andrew's church is rather special, and we in the parish are very proud of it. It is unusual as it is a wooden church, not stone like most in Edinburgh. The building is just over 110 years old, having been built as a kit, supposedly sent from Austria.

In the 1930s Arthur Mee wrote a series of guides to Britain called The King's England and whilst researching for this work he realised that there were very few communities that had not suffered military fatalities in the First World War. He coined the term ‘Thankful villages' to describe them. Minting is one such village.