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This rather extraordinary parish church, set on a spacious green hill above the River Severn, stands in stark contrast to Shrewsbury's medieval streets and mainly Tudor townscape.

The Church of St. Chad, built in 1868, is a neo-Gothic church. Transformed in 1909-11, an organ was also added. Restorations were carried out in 1988 and 2011. In 2007, St Chad's won the Eco-Congregation Award.

St. Clement's Church was built in the 13th century on a site that had been a place of worship since the 11th century. It was one of Visby's oldest and largest churches. The site, today in ruins, shares the features of other medieval churches of Gotland.

St Clemens Church is a 19th-century wooden church in Zakopane. It is one of the historic wooden churches in the Małopolska Province in southern Poland.

While St Clement's is a relatively new building, the history of a parish church in Chorlton goes back a long way.

A church has occupied the site in West Thurrock since pre-conquest days. The first church close to the river would have been on the strip of gravel which the present day church stands. There was no sea wall or river bank as we know it today.

This is the 'Oranges and Lemons' church and features include a Grinling Gibbons pulpit and Samuel Johnson statue. Rebuilt by Sir Christopher Wren in 1682 and burnt out during World War II. Reconsecrated as the Central Church of the Royal Air Force in 1958 with antique and modern silver, RAF Books of Remembrance, Squadron Standards and Badges. Reredos by Ruskin Spear and windows by Carl Edwards.

St Colman's Cathedral is the Catholic cathedral of Cobh. It is a large, elaborate neo-Gothic building, built between 1868 and 1915. The spire of the cathedral is 81 metres high, making it the fourth highest church in Ireland.

The present baroque church of Coloman dates back to the 17th century, but an older building dedicated to St. Coloman existed before its construction. It is said that the Irish pilgrim would have stopped there in the summer of 1012 during his pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

St Columba's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of Derry. It was built between 1628 and 1633 to the designs of William Parrot, in a Gothic style. It was the first Protestant cathedral built following the Reformation in the British Isles.