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Legendary hilltop church with a perfect interior.

The Petrus church of Jouswier, which stands on a mound, has a sober interior. It was built in 1557 to replace the first church, which dated from the thirteenth century. The church is built with the bricks from the old monastery.

This beautiful church was designed by the eminent architect Charles Parker in an Italianate style, with early Christian and Renaissance influences. The cost was met by Alexander Raphael, a Catholic Armenian whose family came from India who became the first Roman Catholic elected Sheriff of London after the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829.

St Raphael's today is a church in its own right, but it was originally built in 1869 by the Rector of Lydford, Revd Morris Fuller, as a mission chapel. He wanted to bring the gospel to those of his flock who lived too far from the parish church, which was the largest parish in Dartmoor and one of the largest in the country.

A typical little Welsh church, looking as though it has grown out of the bones of the hillside, with some striking medieval stained glass and seventeenth-century woodwork.

St Salvator's Chapel, founded in 1450, is one of the two chapels of St Andrews University, the other being St Leonard's Chapel. The chapel has a late Gothic architectural style, but underwent alterations in the late 17th century, in the 1860s and throughout the 20th century. St Salvator's is the only university chapel in Scotland to have a complete set of six bells. Four new bells were added to Catherine and Elizabeth (the existing bells) as part of the university's 600th-anniversary celebrations in 2010.

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St Simon's Church was built in 1865-66 in granite and Caen stone. It was designed by the architect, George Frederick Bodley, whose designs for the restoration of the Town Church had earlier been rejected.

A fine church built in 1870, designed by James Fowler of Louth. Built of local red brick with stone banding from the previous church on the same spot. St Stephen's church includes a beautiful rounded apse with stained glass windows at the east end.

Old Radnor was an important centre of Welsh princedom of Powys before the Normans arrived and would have had a castle or administrative buildings. Across the lane from the church is a raised earth platform with a ditch around it that some have suggested was where the castle stood.