Our Lady Of Peace R C Church

A modest red-brick Catholic church just outside Stratford-upon-Avon, Our Lady of Peace is the sort of place you stumble upon rather than plan for. Built to serve the local Catholic community, it's a straightforward 20th-century structure - nothing ornate, nothing grand, but genuine. The interior is calm and spare, with the kind of quiet that proper churches still manage, even when there's traffic audible from the nearby roads.

It's really for two types of visitors: practising Catholics wanting to attend Mass, and the occasional architecture spotter interested in how different denominations have built in this very Anglican corner of England. If you're staying at one of the caravan parks nearby - Dodwell Park is barely a mile away, Rayford just up the road - it's worth knowing it's there. Some people find comfort in visiting a quiet church while on holiday; others will pass it by without a second glance.

Don't expect it to detain you long. There's no visitor centre, no gift shop, no drama. What you get is a working parish church doing exactly what it's meant to do. Call ahead if you want to visit outside service times - opening hours aren't reliably published, and it's only courteous. It sits conveniently between Stratford proper and the quieter caravan sites, so it could slot into a morning walk without fuss. For most holiday-makers, though, the main attractions lie elsewhere in Stratford.