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The oldest parish church in England is St Martin’s, Canterbury (above), where St Augustine founded his mission after arriving from Rome in AD597

One of the newest is Genesis (opened 2020), a boat on the Lee in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and home to the St Columba East London community The UK’S smallest is the church above the holy well of St Trillo at Rhos on Sea, Clwyd (11ft by 8ft, seats six) Holy Trinity Church in Hull is the largest in England If you can find it, the pre-norman Church of the Holy Cross at Kilgwrrwg, Monmouthshire, is one of the UK’S most remote functioning parish churches—across two fields and a stream from the nearest house, its location is said to have been chosen by allowing a pair of yoked-together heifers to wander and eventually rest