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My summer visit to York saw me staying in the parish of St Paul’s, Holgate. Curiously, the modest hotel at which I lodged had once been the vicarage. The Church of England is a mixed bag, though St Paul’s looks pretty good judging by its website. Its building was not open to inspect, and it is only Victorian anyway. It claims:

St Mary’s at Chirk in Clwyd, Wales, I was pleased to find open when I called in the autumn. An establishment of some vintage, I found it rather peculiar on three counts, the first being the number of monuments to the dead.

Before Kirkland Hill on the drovers' road from Ayrshire to Lanarkshire sits the church of St Connel. Google Maps associates it with the Covenanters though I saw little to explain this when I called. There were plenty of gravestones and even a collection of medieval fragments, for these are thirteenth-century remains on an even older site (some of those broken stones date to the ninth century).