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St Peter's Church is all that remains of the older Winchcombe Abbey, and dates from the 15th century.

The church of St Peter, with its unusual saddleback-roofed tower, dates from Norman times.

Some of the stone came from Waverley Abbey, a victim of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The priory was founded by William Marshall, the Earl of Pembroke, and it was never to be promoted to the status of abbey.

The original church dates back to about 1480; it is thought to have been built by the monks of Abingdon Abbey.

In medieval times it was a market town owned by Combermere Abbey, a Cistercian abbey on the Cheshire border.

Rievaulx Abbey also farmed some 43 acres of land near the village.

Part of the church was built from stone taken from Jervaulx Abbey after the Dissolution.

Founded in poverty in 1132 by a group of monks from St Mary's Abbey, York, Fountains eventually became very wealthy.

In Saxon times, Winchcombe was the capital of the Mercian kingdom; the famous King Offa founded an abbey here.

The parade of shops on the left are currently occupied by Thomas Cook, Abbey, a hairstylist and a photographic shop, whilst Boots is in the adjacent block.

Built of red sandstone, Chester cathedral was founded in 1092 as a Benedictine abbey.

Rievaulx Abbey also farmed some 43 acres of land near the village.

This building is dated 1790, and is a little distance from the church.

The Priory (centre middle), a cell of Lire abbey in Normandy, dates from the early 12th century, with present buildings from the early 16th century.

The 19th-century Abbey Mill contrasts with the 15th-century church tower, which possibly replaced a smaller Norman one.

The castle stands opposite Netley Abbey; most of the surrounding area has now been filled with housing.

Built of red sandstone, Chester Cathedral was founded in 1092 as a Benedictine abbey.

The origins of St Nicholas' Church date back to the 12th century.

The ancient abbey church of St Hilda stands proudly in the Headland area.

Close to the Abbey is the National Motor Museum, a splendid collection of cars founded by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu.

Ripon Cathedral stands on the site of the Saxon abbey church of St Wilfrid, of which this crypt still remains.

It was a Roman town and the seat of an Anglo-Saxon bishopric, and is now dominated by its great late 11th-century Abbey church.

Within the vestry of the abbey at the south-west end are stained glass windows dating from 1928.