Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

I was running out of time, but it was only a small church and it did not look overly promising. The stonework looked too regular…modern… except for the tower which looked as if it didn’t quite match, and the enclosure of the church itself, right at the heart of the village, which looked older still. And if there is one thing we have learned for certain in our years of ‘church tapping’, it is that you really cannot judge a book by its cover or a church by its masonry. Too many have been rebuilt, the lily gilded and the ancient stone ‘restored’ by the Victorians. What lies within may not match the face-lift.

There are early Neolithic remains in the area, showing that it had been settled for millennia. Not just traces either; the impressive Thor’s Cave is right on Wetton’s doorstep and a couple of miles away is…