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St. Michael and All Saints Church is a brick
and stone building with an embattled West Tower.
The original foundation is 14th Century, but it was rebuilt in 1500 and again in 1872.
Berechurch Hall, the mansion of West Donyland, is first mentioned as being acquired by Sir
Thomas Audley, Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII and Speaker of the House of Commons,
after St. John's Abbey was dissolved.
Members of the family built the little family church, where many of them are buried.
It is recorded that in 1537 the Parish of Berechurch numbered 37 people.
Thomas Audley had a very dark side to his character. It is said that on his black marble
gravestone, which is situated in another part of the county, it is written, 'That the
stone was no blacker nor harder than his heart'!
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