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Rivington Church, which pleasingly has no saintly dedication, is in the pretty little village between Blackburn and Bolton, which it shares with the Unitarian Rivington Chapel, which was once Presbyterian. In its grounds, there is a remarkable number of seventeenth-century gravestones, one of which goes back to James I, in 1616:

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This funeral effigy of Joan de Vere was made some time after she died in 1292. Originally placed in Lewes Priory, it was relocated to Chichester Cathedral in the sixteenth century’s dissolution of monastic institutions. She is flanked by two sets of weeping angels, whose heads zealous reformers or puritans saw fit to remove.

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Strathaven Evangelical Fellowship (South Lanarkshire) meets in premises which began as a Brethren meeting hall which was built about 1876. In 1989 it was rebranded and the Lord's people continue to gather there. 

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Holy Trinity in the Cumbrian village of Casterton is a typically English parish church from the 1830s constructed in an Early English style, something shy of full-blown gothic. Its internals are characterised by large, colourful wall paintings, in that typically late Victorian style, and not unlike Burne-Jones’ manner, but by Clarke and the socialist Holiday.

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