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St Peter's Wootton Wawen, near Stratford upon Avon, is one of the oldest structures in England's idlands. Its tower dates back to the 900s, if not earlier.

St Peter's was completed in 1879 to a design by GE Street as the founding mother church of Bournemouth. The building incorporates work by some of the finest Gothic Revival architects and artists, including Street, George Frederick Bodley, Ninian Comper, Arthur Blomfield and Edward Burne-Jones, with stained glass and frescoes by Clayton and Bell. The chancel has been described as 'one of the richest Gothic Revival interiors in England'.

The present church was built in 1830/31 on the same site as one dating from the middle 15th century. Many interesting treasures are waiting to be found within.

Gayton le Wold is a small village nestling in the Lincolnshire Wolds, to the west of the market town of Louth. So small in fact it doesn't appear on some of the larger scale maps. The brick church of St Peter sits peacefully on the hillside of this rural hamlet. It is hard to believe that only 150 years ago the Wesleyans and Free Methodists also had chapels situated in this tiny village.

One of the Rylstone's most iconic buildings is St Peter's Church. Designated as Grade II listed by English Heritage, it was constructed between 1852 and 1853 and has a gritstone exterior in a style known as 'churchwarden gothic'.

St Peter's is in a windswept location, in open farmland, with ancient yew trees and a patina of great antiquity. Abutting the north side of the tower, and entered from the church, is a rare medieval priest's house.

Today, the Brough of Birsay is a small tidal island off the Orkney mainland. Between the 600s and 1200s AD, the area was settled by the Picts and Norse.

St Peter's is an unusually large church for Devon, and is sometimes known as the little Cathedral of Devon. Largely dating from the 14th century it is cruciform in shape and sits in the former park of the Earls of Bath.

St Peter's was of some importance particularly in Anglo Saxon times in giving its name to one of the thirteen Hundred districts into which Surrey was divided. It is popular with walkers who find it featured in most walking guides to the area particularly as it has the second largest Yew tree in UK.

In a tiny hamlet right on the Welsh border, is a very special church, black and white both inside and out, and wonderfully picturesque and rustic looking. There has been a place of Christian worship in Melverley for about a 1000 years. In 1141 Ordericus Vitalis mentions a ‘wooden chapel on the banks of the river above Shrewsbury'. In 1401 this church was burnt by the Welsh chieftain Owain Glyndwr. It was rebuilt in 1406 from local oak.