Aficionados gather at Great Paxton for the first of the Cambridgeshire Historic Churches Trust annual season of church visits aka crawls. The tall round-headed transept arch and clustered-column piers give the game away that this is a very special survival of a large Anglo-Saxon minster church, a very early aisles cruciform structure, predating the parish system, whose community (monastic or secular) provided services and care to a wide local area. A model for the future as well as the past?

Visit http://www.camhct.uk to find out more about the Trust.