Favourite churches

'peace in a busy and diverse London'
St Mary, Newham, London is my favourite church.

'changed the whole pre-Raphaelite movement'
All Saints, Margaret Street, London is my favourite church.

'no newcomer to Bisley need feel lonely'
All Saints, Bisley, Gloucester is my favourite church.

'a fantastic place of calm'
St Michael, Up Marden, Sussex is my favourite church.

'where I spent every Sunday of my childhood'
Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, London is my favourite church.

'the parish church of the journalistic trade that I ply, a holy and peaceful place for memories'
St Bride, Fleet Street, London is my favourite church.

'the tiny, graceful spire rises like a dream'
St Bride, Fleet Street, London is my favourite church.

'a church crawler’s dream, having something from almost every period in English church history'
St Mary the Virgin, Wetherden, Suffolk is my favourite church.

'I played the organ in the church as a teenager'
St John the Evangelist, Cumnock, Ayrshire is my favourite church.

'centuries of worship has seeped into the walls'
Brigflatts Quaker Meeting House, Brigflatts, Cumbria is my favourite church.

'rich in memorials to our national and local history'
St Wilfrid, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire is my favourite church.

'the community works hard for its preservation and restoration'
St Peter, Theberton with Eastbridge, Suffolk is my favourite church.

'one of the most significant religious buildings in Wales'
Capel Als Chapel, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire is my favourite church.

'unassuming and remote'
St Issui, Patricio, Powys is my faourite church.

'a tiny Norman jewel'
Heath Chapel, Heath, Shropshire is my favourite church.

'feels so very ancient when you enter'
Heath Chapel, Heath, Shropshire is my favourite church.

'extraordinary for its humble beauty, simple faith, austerity and noble stoicism'
All Saints, Cockthorpe, Norfolk is my favourite church.

the last ever Norman church in all Derbyshire, jerry built in the 1920s'
All Saints, Totley, Yorkshire is my favourite church.

'a lovely little church in a picture postcard setting'
St Mary the Virgin, Fawley, Buckinghamshire is my favourite church.

'I was married here'
St Margaret of Antioch, Abbotsley, Cambridgeshire is my favourite church.

'because all life is here'
St Matthew, Ealing, London is my favourite church.

'a rare northern delight of Arts & Crafts'
St Andrew, Roker, Tyne & Wear is my favourite church.

'a beautiful, white bareness'
St Peter, Westleton, Suffolk is my favourite church.

'scores a royal flush for us church bibbers, almost too much beauty to deal with'
St Andrew, Mells, Somerset is my favourite church.

'a building that I associate with my sense of Scottishness'
Laigh Kirk, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire is my favourite church.

'well worth a visit'
Holy Trinity, Torbryan, Devon is my favourite church.

'contributed greatly to my happiness'
Methodist Church, Great Houghton, Yorkshire is my favourite church.