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St Katharinen-Kirche is located in Süderstapel, a village in Schleswig-Holstein on the northern shore of the River Eider.

The ownership of lands in Ockholte, Latinised Acolta, is recorded in various deeds from 1197 onwards. The church, and the emergence of Knockholt as an independent parish, can be dated from a document of 1350, rediscovered in Reigate library in 1849. It records how Ralph Scot of Chelsfield bought land in Ocolte and moved to his newly built hall there in the times of Henry III, before 1272.

St. Lars is a church in ruins in the town of Visby. The choir, which is the oldest part of the building, probably dates from the 12th century. The church has similarities with Russian sacred architecture.

Bradford on Avon was an important religious centre in Saxon times and St Laurence's church is an ancient building, thought to be one of the most complete Saxon buildings still in existence.

It is likely that there has been a church on this site from at least 1100, maybe earlier, when Hawkhurst belonged to the Abbot of Wye, and then of Battle. It was given to him by William the Conqueror as part of his thank offering after the Battle of Hastings. The first mention of the building is in a Charter of 1285 and the first rector whose name we have is Richard de Clyne in 1291.

St Laurentius-Kirche is located in Kosel, a village in Schleswig-Holstein, to the south of the Schlei, the largest inland fjord in Germany. The ferry in Missunde at the narrowest point of the Schlei is only 3 miles away.

St Lawrence church is grade II listed. 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. The 1733 church was built on the site of an even earlier church.

St Lawrence's is a timber framed church that at the most conservative estimate dates from 1531.

St Lawrence is an unmistakable church perched high on West Wycombe Hill with the famous 'Golden Ball' at the top of the tower. St Lawrence's church at West Wycombe may be one of the most famous of all parish churches in England, but not to do with its architecture or ancient origins. Rather, it owes its popularity to the eccentric Francis Dashwood, Lord le Despence and owner of nearby West Wycombe Park.

The church has close associations with Bardney Abbey, a Benedictine monastery founded in 697 by King Ethelred of Mercia.