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A chance to climb up an Islington church tower

If you have a good head for heights, there's now a chance to climb up to the top of a church steeple and walk around the narrow space at the top.

See inside Hackney’s St Peter de Beauvoir church

This is a local church with a tall clock tower that can be seen poking above the skyline for some distance in this Victorian estate of middle-class homes known as the Benyon Estate.

A visit to St Nicholas Church, Chiswick

If you're on a walk along the north bank of the Thames in Chiswick, you'll be rewarded by a short detour to the ancient St Nicholas church that also played a starring role in Quatermass and Pit.

The modernist St Saviour’s Church, Warwick Avenue

Opposite Warwick Avenue tube station is a striking 50-year old modernist church that replaced an older Victorian gothic church on the site in the 1970s.

The unexpected interior of Our Lady of the Rosary, Marylebone

Not far from Marylebone can be found an austere looking church building, that has a surprisingly light and open interior.

Inside the church of St George’s, Hanover Square

This is a circa 300-year old church built as part of a project to build fifty new churches around London but was built before the parish it would serve had been created.

The 800-year old church of St Martin-in-the-Fields

The grand church on the corner of Trafalgar Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields is 800 years old this year. Sort of.

The church of St Botolph without Aldgate and Holy Trinity Minories

On the eastern boundary of the City of London is a church dedicated to the patron saint of boundaries.

Islington’s Union Chapel gets £1 million heritage grant

The Union Chapel, a nearly 150 year old church that has been for the past 30 years also a music venue, has received a £1 million grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The refurbishment of the 200-year old St John’s Waterloo church

In the run up to its 200th anniversary, a large church in Waterloo has undergone a substantial refurbishment, in part to undo some 1950s repairs but also to make it fit for modern uses.

The unexpected interior of a Mayfair Church

If you're wandering down Mayfair's Curzon Street, you might spy a grand-looking church. You might want to pop inside for a look, and oh, that's not what I had expected.

St Matthias – London’s only interregnum church

On a side street in Poplar, East London, is an old church that's now used as a playschool -- and is London's only church that was built during the Interregnum, the time England was a republic.

Inside the 200-year old St Pancras New Church

Built to serve the growing population of London, when it opened 200 years ago, St Pancras New Church was the most expensive church built in London since the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral

The mysterious floating coffin of Pinner

There's a grave in Pinner, in northwest London, that is quite remarkable -- it has a coffin floating in the air right through the middle of it.

Chelesea’s unusual Moravian burial ground

Not easy to find in Chelsea as it's hidden behind high Tudor brick walls is an unusual burial ground - for the Moravian Church.

Tickets Alert: Tours of St Alfege Greenwich’s church crypt

Sitting in the heart of Greenwich town centre is the imposing St Alfege Church, and they've started offering semi-regular tours of the crypt underneath the church.

Visit London’s Ukrainian Cathedral

For obvious, and less obvious reasons, right now is a very good time to pay a visit to the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in London, which can be found just off Oxford Street in central London.

Tours of a restored neo-gothic church – St Mary Magdalene Paddington

A neo-gothic church with a remarkable ceiling that was falling into ruin, and was recently restored is now open for regular tours.

The unexpected interior of the City Temple

Sitting next to the Holborn Viaduct is a grand Victorian church, with a totally modern interior.

See inside St Mary’s Cadogan Street

A couple of blocks away from Chelsea's posh shops is a large Catholic church that owes its origins to one of the earliest post-reformation Catholic chapels in the country.

St Mary Moorfields – the City’s only Roman Catholic church

Just around the corner from Liverpool Street station is a building that if glanced at briefly looks like a conventional Edwardian office block, but is in fact the City of London's only Catholic Church.

A visit to St Mary le Strand church

Sitting in the middle of the road outside Somerset House on Strand is a grand church with a tall steeple it shouldn't have.

Pay a visit to St Albans Cathedral

In the centre of St Albans is a Cathedral, called an Abbey that's also a church,  was built by the Normans but is mostly Victorian.

Inside the Pugin designed St George’s Cathedral, Southwark

You'd probably not realise it at first glance, but the modern-looking church in Southwark was actually designed by the king of the gothic revival, Augustus Pugin.