PARISH CHURCHES
County Village Name Stars Features
Berkshire ALDWORTH St Mary 3 De la Beche tombs
Berkshire ASHAMPSTEAD St Clements Excellent old Wall paintings
Berkshire AVINGTON St Mark & St Luke 1 Norman font carvings
Berkshire BISHAM All Saints 2 Hoby chapel & tombs
Berkshire CHARNEY BASSETT St Peter A tympanum
Berkshire DORNEY St James 2 Palmer family pews
Berkshire EAST HADBOURNE St Andrews A ?
Berkshire EAST SHEFFORD St Thomas 1 Fettiplace tombs
Berkshire GREAT SHEFFORD St Mary Round tower, writing
Berkshire HAMSTEAD MARSHALL St Mary 1 17th C furnishings
Berkshire LAMBOURN St Michael 2 Hare-coursing arch, King Charles roundel
Berkshire LANGLEY MARISH St Mary 4 Kedermister pew & library
Berkshire MAPLEDURAM St Margaret tomb + font
Berkshire NEWBURY St Nicolas 1 27 Stained glass windows
Berkshire PADWORTH St john the Baptist A Norman + monument
Berkshire SHOTTESBROOKE St John 2 Needle spire, complete Decorated interior with tombs
Berkshire SWALLOWFIELD All Saints old church with 2 lovely windows
Berkshire THEALE Holy Trinity A unusual layout?
Berkshire UFFINGTON St Mary A mini cathedral
Berkshire WARFIELD St Michael 1 Decorated chancel carvings
Berkshire WELFORD St Gregory round tower
Berkshire WICKHAM St Swithun 1 Elephant corbels
Devon ASHTON (Upper) St John the Baptist 2 Village setting, painted screen
Devon BABBACOMBE All Saints 1 Butterfield luxury
Devon BERE FERRERS St Andrew 2 Ferrers monuments and glass
Devon BRANSCOMBE St Winifred 1 Pictureesque hillside setting
Devon BRAUNTON St Brannock 1 Bench-ends, piglets boss
Devon BRENTOR St Michael 1 Wild Dartmoor setting
Devon BUCKLAND IN THE MOOR St Peters A
Devon CHITTLEHAMPTON St Hieritha 2 Somerset' tower, Giffard monument
Devon COCKINGTON St George & St Mary
Devon COLDRIDGE St Matthew A
Devon COMBE MARTIN St Peter 1 20th C furnishings
Devon CREDITON Holy Cross 4 Carved sedilia, Buller memorial screen
Devon CRUWYS MORCHARD The Holy Cross 1 Named pews
Devon CULLOMPTON St Andrews 4+ Carved screen, Perpendicular roof, aisle fan-vault, Golgotha
Devon DARMOUTH St Saviour 3 Nautical town church, medieval door, Devon pulpit
Devon HACCOMBE St Blaise 2 Estate setting, medieval brasses
Devon HARBERTON St Andrews 1 Metalwork Victorian screen, Devon pulpit
Devon HARTLAND St Nectan 3 Normal font, original screen
Devon HOLBETON All Saints 2 Arts & Crafts furnishings by J.D.Sedding
Devon HONEYCHURCH St Mary 1 Normal farmers' chapel
Devon KENTISBEARE St Mary 2 Refined screen carving
Devon KENTON All Saints 1 20th C wood carving
Devon LAPFORD St Thomas A
Devon MOLLAND St Mary 3 Rare screen with solid tympanum
Devon MORTEHOE St Mary 1 Modern mosaic and stained glass
Devon OTTERY ST MARY St Mary 5 Miniature Exeter Cathedral, painted roof, fan-vaulted aisle
Devon PAINTON St John 2 Kirkham Chantry screen
Devon PARRACOMBE St Petrock 2 Georgian fittings, screen with tympanum
Devon PILTON St Mary A
Devon PLYMTREE St John 1 Gilded screen, alabaster panel
Devon SAMPFORD COURTENAY St Andrew 1 Tree-trunk chest
Devon SUTCOMBE St Andres 1 Pulpit, wood carvings
Devon SWIMBRIDGE St James 3 Perpendicular roofs, 'cupboard' font cover
Devon TAWSTOCK St Peter 3 Family pews, Bourchier & Wrey monuments
Devon TIVERTON St Peter 2 Martitime stone carvings
Devon TORBRYAN Holy Trinity 1 Box pews, original screen
Devon TOTNES St Mary 1 Perpendicular stone screen
Devon WIDECOMBE IN THE MOOR St Pancras 1 Moorland setting, three-rabbit boss
Essex BLACKMORE St Lawerence 2 Wooden Gothic tower
Essex BRADWELL-ON-SEA St Peter on the Wall 2 Saxon mission, wild coastal setting
Essex BRIGHTLINGSEA All Saints 1 Essex tower, 'insurance' sculpture
Essex CASTLE HEDINGHAM St Nicholas 2 Hammerbeam roof, de Vere heraldry
Essex CHICKNEY St Mary 1 Isolated setting, figurative carvings
Essex COPFORD St Michale 4 12th century wall paintings
Essex EAST HORNDON All Saints 1 Tyrell family pews
Essex FAIRSTEAD St Mary 13th century Wall paintings, Roman bricks
Essex FINCHINGFIELD St John 2 Picturesque setting, jolly corbel heads
Essex FRYERNING St Mary 1 Essex brick tower, Airey Neave window
Essex GREAT BARDFIELD St Mary 1 Stone rood screen
Essex GREAT BROMLEY St George 2 Carved capitals, Red Indian window
Essex GREAT WARLEY St Mary 3 Arts and Crafts
Essex GREENSTED St Andrews 2 Oldesst wooden nave in Europe
Essex HATFIELD BROAD OAK St Mary 1 Queen Anne woodwork, modern acron knellers
Essex INGATESTONE St Edmund and St Mary 1 Brick tower, Petre monumnets
Essex LAMBOURNE END St Mary 1 Manorial setting, Georgian chancel beam
Essex LAWFORD St Mary 2 Decorated chancel, tumblers window
Essex LAYER MARNEY St Mary 3 Marney chapel and tombs, St Christopher mural
Essex LITTLE DUNMOW Priory of St Mary 2 Flitch Chair, Fitzwalter monument
Essex LITTLE EASTON St Mary 2 Bourchier brass, bomber window
Essex MALDON All Saints 2 Decorated arcading, Washington window
Essex MARGARETTING St Maargaret 1 Interior pargeting, Jesse window
Essex RADWINTER St Mary 1 16th century Flemish reredos
Essex RIVENHALL St Mary 1 French medieval glass
Essex SAFFRON WALDEN St Mary 3 King;s Chapel turrets, Audley tomb
Essex SEBBING St Mary 1 Stone rood screen
Essex THAXTED St John 4 Flying-buttressed spire, Perpendicular windows, Adam & Eve glass
Essex TILTY St Mary 2 Reticulated east window tracery
Essex WALTHAM ABBEY Holy Cross 4 15th century Doom, Burne-Jones windows
Gloucestershire AMPNEY CRUCIS Holy Rood 1 Memorial cross, Lloyd tomb
Gloucestershire AMPNEY ST MARY St Mary 1 Normal carving, Christ of the Trades mural
Gloucestershire BERKELEY St Mary 3 Early Gothic west front, Berkeley memorials
Gloucestershire BEVERSTON St Mary 1 Saxon Resurrections carving
Gloucestershire BIBURY St Mary 2 Picturesque setting, Saxon carvings
Gloucestershire BISHOP'S CLEEVE St Michael 3 Norman esst front, chest with Norman locks
Gloucestershire BRISTOL Lord Mayor's Chapel 4 European medieval glass, civic tombs
Gloucestershire BRISTOL St John 2 Setting over city gate
Gloucestershire BRISTOL St Mary, Redcliffe 5 Twin porches, Perpendicular interior, 1200 roof bosses
Gloucestershire BRISTOL The New Room 2 Early Methodist meeting room
Gloucestershire BUCKLAND St Michael 2 Shepherds' pews, medieval cope
Gloucestershire CHEDWORTH St Andrew 2 Perpendicular window display
Gloucestershire CHIPPING CAMPDEN St James 4 Cotswold tower, clothiers' tomb, altar hangings
Gloucestershire CIRCENCESTER St John the Baptist 5 Perpendicular porch, fan vaults, merchants' tombs
Gloucestershire DAYLESFORD St Peter 1 Immaculate Pearson interior
Gloucestershire DEERHURST St Mary 4 Saxon fragments, angel sculpture
Gloucestershire DUNTISBOURNE ROUSE St Michael 2 Isolated hillside chapel with crypt
Gloucestershire DYRHAM St Peter 1 Setting, Elizabethan tomb
Gloucestershire EASTLEACH MARTIN St Michael and St Martin 1 Twin churches facing each other across a glade
Gloucestershire EASTLEACH TURVILLE St Andrews 1 Twin churches facing each other across a glade
Gloucestershire ELKSTONE St John  3 Normal chancel, columbarium in chancel roof
Gloucestershire FAIRFORD St Mary 4 Complete set of medieval glass, stone carvings, misericords
Gloucestershire GREAT WASHBOURNE St Mary 1 Gothic squints
Gloucestershire HAILES unnamed 1 Rare chancel seating
Gloucestershire HIGHNAM Holy Innocents 4 Woodyer's Gothic memorial
Gloucestershire KEMPLEY St Mary 3 Normal wall paintings
Gloucestershire LECHLADE St Lawrence 3 Tower carvings, roof bosses and corbels
Gloucestershire LEONARD STANLEY St Swithun 2 Normal Biblical carvings
Gloucestershire NEWLAND All Saints 3 Forester tombs, miner's brass
Gloucestershire NORTH CERNEY All Saints 2 Antiquarian restoration
Gloucestershire NORTHLEACH St Peter and St Paul 4 Perpendicular porch, wool merchants' brasses
Gloucestershire ODDINGTON St Nicholas 2 Ancient woodland setting, Doom mural
Gloucestershire OZLEWORTH St Nicholas 1 Hexagonal tower
Gloucestershire PAINSWICK St Mary 2 Churchyard tomns and yews
Gloucestershire RENDCOMB St Peter 1 Tutor interior, Herefordshire font
Gloucestershire SELSLEY All Saints 2 Gallery of early Morris glass
Gloucestershire STANTON St Michael 1 Comper furnishings
Gloucestershire TETBURY St Mary 1 Georgian Gothic interior
Gloucestershire TEWKESBURY Abbey of St Mary 5 Norman nave, 'Sun of York; bosses, Despenser tombs, medieval glass
Gloucestershire TEWKESBURY Old Baptist Chapel 1 Chapel in converted medieval house
Gloucestershire WINCHCOMBE St Peter 2 Gallery of gargoyles, Tudor embroidery
Hampshire ASHMANSWORTH St James 1 Private pews, Whistler glass
Hampshire AVINGTON St Mary 3 Rich Georgian interior
Hampshire BEAULIEU Blessed Virgin & Holy Child 1 Stairway to pulpit
Hampshire BOARHUNT St Nicholas 1 Saxon chancel, Hendow memorial
Hampshire BOLDRE St John  1 20th C glass
Hampshire BRAMLEY St James 1 Becket mural, Soane transept
Hampshire BREAMORE St Mary 2 Saxon church & rood
Hampshire BURGHCLERE Sandham Memorial Chapel 2 Stanley Spencer murals
Hampshire CHRISTCHURCH Priory A Longest + architecture
Hampshire CORHAMPTON not dedicated 1 Unaltered Saxon chapel
Hampshire COSHAM St Philip 2 Comper's last Gothic interior
Hampshire CRONDALL All Saints 2 Norman nave, Transitional chancel carvings
Hampshire EAST MEON All Saints 3 Tournal font
Hampshire ELLINGHAM St Mary 1 Chancel screen with double tympanum
Hampshire FAWLEY All Saints 1 Eccentric location, Norman doorway
Hampshire HALE St Mary 1 Baroque chapel in a dell
Hampshire HEADBOURNE WORTHY St Swithun 1 Saxon rood
Hampshire IDSWORTH St Hubert 1 Hillside chapel with St Hubert wall painting
Hampshire LYNDHURST St Michale & All Angels 3 New Forest gallery of Pre-Raphaelite art
Hampshire MINSTEAD All Saints 3 Unaltered Georgian interior with family pews
Hampshire PAMBER St Mary & St John the Baptist A
Hampshire PORTCHESTER St Mary 2 Norman font, Early Gothic carvings
Hampshire ROMSEY Abbey of St Mary & St Ethelflaeda 4 Saxon roods, Norman arcades, carved capitals
Hampshire SELBORNE St Mary 1 Gilbert White memorial, Flemish altarpiece
Hampshire SILCHESTER St Mary 1 Screen with angels
Hampshire SOUTHWICK St James 1 Georgian chancel and reredos
Hampshire STOKE CHARITY St Mary & St Michael 2 Tombs everywhere
Hampshire TITCHFIELD St Peter 2 Saxon remains, Wriothesley mausoleum
Hampshire WARNFORD Church of Our Lady A
Hampshire WINCHESTER St Cross 4 Norman almshouse church rich with zigzags
Hampshire WINCHESTER St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate Small church over city gateway
Hampshire WOLVERTON St Catherine 1 Double altars, double pulpits
Leicestershire BOTTESFORD St Mary the Virgin A Tomb + wall painting
Oxfordshire ABINGDON St Helen 3 5 aisled nave, Lily Crucifix ceiling
Oxfordshire ADDERBURY St Mary 3 14th C stone carving
Oxfordshire BLOXHAM St Mary 4 Window carvings, Milcombe Chapel, Burne-Joes glass
Oxfordshire BROUGHTON St Mary 2 Contrasting medieval tombs
Oxfordshire BURFORD St John 5 Merchants' guild chapel, Red Indian memorial, Kempe glass
Oxfordshire CHARLTON-ON-OTMOOR St Mary 1 Carved screen, boxwood cross
Oxfordshire CHILDREY St Mary 1 Mnorman lead font, memorial brasses
Oxfordshire CHIPPING NORTON St Mary 3 Woolgothic nave, Decorated tracery
Oxfordshire CHISLEHAMPTON St Katherine 1 Georgian interior
Oxfordshire CHURCH HANBOROUGH St Peter & St Paul 2 Landmark steeple, Norman tympanum
Oxfordshire CHURCHILL All Saints A
Oxfordshire COMPTON BEAUCHAMP St Swithun 2 Martin Travers restoration
Oxfordshire DORCHESTER Abbey of St Peter & St Paul 4 Carved window tracery, lead font, action effigy of knight
Oxfordshire DUCKLINGTON St Batholomews A
Oxfordshire EAST HABBOURNE St Andrew 1 Triceps carving, medieval Nativity window
Oxfordshire EWELME St Mary 3 Tudor almshouse setting, Chaucer memorial
Oxfordshire FARINGDON All Saints 3 Transitional carvings, 16th C tombs
Oxfordshire HANWELL St Peter 2 North Oxfordshire carvings
Oxfordshire HORLEY St Etheldreda 2 St Christopher mural
Oxfordshire IFFLEY St Mary 3 Norman interior and exterior carving
Oxfordshire KIDLINGTON St Mary 2 Early misericords, medieval east window
Oxfordshire NORTH MORETON All Saints 2 Medieval glass
Oxfordshire OXFORD St Mary 3 Entriched tower, Raphael south porch, Gandhi boss
Oxfordshire RADLEY St James 1 Wodden arcade, 16 C glass
Oxfordshire RYCOTE St Michael 2 Canopied royal pew
Oxfordshire SHORTHMAPTON All Saints 1 Farmyard setting, wall paintings
Oxfordshire SHRIVENHAM St Andrew 2 Eccentric Tuscan arcade
Oxfordshire SOUTH NEWINGTON St Peter ad Vincula 2 Virgin and Child mural
Oxfordshire SPARSHOLT The Holy Rood 1 Easter Sepulchre, wooden tomb effigies
Oxfordshire SPARSHOLT St Michael 2 Harcourt monuments
Oxfordshire SWINBROOK St Mary 2 Fettiplace and Mitford tombs
Oxfordshire THAME St Mary 2 Medieval choir stalls, Williams tomb
Oxfordshire UFFINGTON St Mary 3 Immaculate Early Gothic interior
Oxfordshire WHEATFIELD St Andrew 1 Parkland setting, Georgian interior
Oxfordshire WIDFORD St Oswald 1 Roman pavement
Oxfordshire WITNEY St Mary A
Oxfordshire YARNTON St Batholomew 3 Spencer tombs, ancient glass
Somerset BOTTESFORD St John 3 17th C ceiling
Somerset BANWELL St Andew 2 Annunciatoin lily, porch rood loft
Somerset BATCOMBE St Mary 1 Late Somerset tower
Somerset BATH Abbey 4 West front 'ladders', old and new fan vaults
Somerset BISHOP'S LYDEARD St Mary 2 Taunton tower, carved benches
Somerset BRENT KNOLL St Michael 2 Bench-end cartoons, Civil War monuments
Somerset BROOMFIELD St Mary and All Saints A
Somerset BRUTON St Mary 2 Powerful tower, Georgian chancel
Somerset BRYMPTON St Andew 3 Country house setting, stone screen
Somerset CAMELEY St James 2 Unmodernised interior, box pews
Somerset CHEWTON MENDIP St Mary Magdalene 1 Tower and setting
Somerset COMPTON MARTIN St Michael 2 Norman interior, ancient dovecote
Somerset CREWKERNE St Bartholomew 4 Perpendicular window tracery, 'clean and unclean' doors
Somerset CROSCOMBE St Mary 3 Jacobean fittings, medieval treasury
Somerset CROWCOMBE Holy Ghost 2 Country house setting, stone screen
Somerset CULBONE St Culbone 1 Smallest church, woodland setting
Somerset CURRY RIVEL St Andew 2 Manorial tombs
Somerset DUNSTER St George 4 Longest screen, cloister garden
Somerset EAST BRENT St Mary 2 Carolean ceiling, carved bench-ends
Somerset EVERCREECH St Peter 1 Wells group tower, repainted roof
Somerset GLASTONBURY St John 2 Mythical setting, 15th C glass
Somerset GOATHURST St Edward 1 Halswell monuments, child with broken flower
Somerset HIGH HAM St Andew 2 Gargoyles, fan-vaulted screen
Somerset HUISH EPISCOPI St Mary 3 Taunton group tower, Burne-Jones window
Somerset ILMINSTER St Mary 3 Wadham tomb
Somerset ISLE ABBOTTS St Mary 4 Taunton group tower, Perpendicular north aisle
Somerset KINGSBURY EPISCOPI St Martin 2 Taunton group tower
Somerset KINGSTON ST MARY St Mary 2 Tower hunky punks, carved bench-ends
Somerset LEIGH-UPON-MENDIP St Giles 1 Elongated tower, panelled roof
Somerset LONG SUTTON Holy Trinity 2 Restored Perpendicular pulpit and screen
Somerset LULLINGTON All Saints 2 Norman carvings
Somerset MARTOCK All Saints 3 Carved roof, old fives court
Somerset MELLS St Andew 3 Fan-vaulted porch, Edwardian memorials
Somerset MUCHELNEY St Peter and St Paul 1 Bare-bosomed angels
Somerset NORTH CADBURY St Michael 2 Symmetrical aisles, bench-ends of domestic life
Somerset NORTH PETHERTON St Mary 1 Somerset tower tracery, Kempe window
Somerset NORTON SUB HAMDON St Mary 2 Arts and Crafts furnishings
Somerset OARE St Peter 1 Moreland setting, Doone legend
Somerset QUEEN CAMEL St Barnabas 2 Medieval bestiary roof
Somerset SELWORTHY All Saints 3 Painted aisle roof, leather reredos
Somerset SHEPTON MALLET St Peter and St Paul 3 Panel wagon roof, stone pulpit
Somerset SOMERTON St Michael 3 Monster roof carvings
Somerset STAPLE FITZPAINE St Peter A
Somerset STOGUMBER St Mary 3 Sydenham chapel, 'Morris' chancel
Somerset STOGURSEY St Andew 3 Norman crossing and chancel, Verney tombs
Somerset STOKE PERO nameless 1 Wild Exmoor setting
Somerset STOKE SUB HAMDON St Mary 2 Norman tympanum, 20th C window
Somerset SWELL St Catherine 1 Farmyard setting
Somerset TAUNTON St Mary Magdalene 3 Biggest Somerset tower, giant nave
Somerset TRULL All Saints 2 Pulpit carvings, processional bench-ends
Somerset WATCHET St Decuman A
Somerset WELLS St Cuthbert 3 Soaring tower, reredos fragments
Somerset WESTONZOYLAND St Mary 3 Taunton group tower, roof carvings
Somerset WRINGTON All Saints A
Somerset WITHAM FRIARY St Mary 1 Carthusian foundation
Somerset YATTON St Mary 2 South porch, gypsy's grave
Wiltshire ALTON BARNES St Mary 1 Farmland setting, Saxon fragments
Wiltshire AMESBURY St Mary and St Melor 2 Early Gothic tower, Decorated chancel
Wiltshire AVERBURY St James 1 Norman font, Perpendicular screen
Wiltshire BISHOPS CANNINGS St Mary 3 Early Gothic carvings, penitent;s pew
Wiltshire BISHOPSTONE St John 2 Decorated windows
Wiltshire BRADFORD-ON-AVON Holy Trintity 1 Tombs by Nost and Rysbrack
Wiltshire BRADFORD-ON-AVON St Lawrence 2 Rediscoved Saxon chapel
Wiltshire BROMHAM St Nicholas A
Wiltshire CHIPPENHAM St Andrew 1 Town setting, 13th C chest
Wiltshire CRICKLADE St Sampson 2 Tudor belfrey
Wiltshire DEVIZES St John 4 Norman chancel carvings, 15th C chantries
Wiltshire EDINGTON St Mary, St Katharine & All Saints 5 Post-Reformation ceilings, memorial by Chantrey
Wiltshire FARLEY All Saints A
Wiltshire INGLESHAM St John the Baptist A old wall paintings
Wiltshire LACOCK St. Cyriac A
Wiltshire LYDIARD TREGOZE St Mary A
Wiltshire MALMESBURY The Abbey 4 Romanesque figure sculpture, King Athelstan's tomb
Wiltshire MARDEN All Saints A
Wiltshire MERE St Michael 3 Restored rood screen, medieval glass, misericords
Wiltshire MILDENHALL St John 2 Regency box pews, twin pulpits
Wiltshire OLD DILTON St Mary 2 Unaltered 18th C interior
Wiltshire POTTERNE St Mary 2 Early Gothic interior
Wiltshire PURTON St Mary 1 Christ of the Trades mural
Wiltshire SALISBURT St Thomas 3 Complete medieval Doom
Wiltshire STEEPLE ASHTON St Mary 3 Roof pinnacles, lierne vault carvings
Wiltshire TISBURY St John 1 Crossing carvings, Arundell Chapel
Wiltshire URCHFONT St Michael 1 Chancel vault carvings
Wiltshire WILTON St Mary and St Nicholas 2 Italian furnishings, French medieval glass
Star rating from "England's Thousand Best Churches" by Simon Jenkins
Additional ones from "Parish Churches as Works of Art" by Alec Clifton-Taylor
CATHEDRALS
Chester
Durham
Ely
Exeter
Ripon
Salisbury
Wells
Winchester
Non-UK
Avaranches, Parish Church, Normandy
Bayeux Cathedral, Normandy
Coutances Cathedral, Normandy
Dinan, St Malo's Church,Normandy
Dinan, St Sauveur's Church, Normandy
Fougeres, St Leonard, Normandy
Mont St Michel Abbey, Normandy
Florence & Rome churches