Churches across the country are holding Remembrance services on Sunday to mark the moment the guns fell silent at the end of World War One.

Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the brutal four-year war at 11am on 11 November 1918.

The Church of England is live streaming a remembrance service from Ely Cathedral on its Facebook page, just one of over a thousand church Remembrance services registered on its 'A Church Near You' website to mark Armistice Day.

To coincide with the centenary, many churches and cathedrals have been holding special events and exhibitions over the past few weeks, including poppy displays.

In the Diocese of Chester, members of the Macclesfield Team ministry knitted over 500 poppies which were then arranged to form the number 100 in a display at the town's Saint Barnabas church. Special purple poppies were included to remember the animals that were killed during the Great War.

The Remembrance Sunday service at Ripon Cathedral was being joined by a delegation from Hanover in Germany, including Bishop of Hanover Ralf Meister - who was invited to preach the sermon - and the Girls' Choir of Hanover. 

Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines, said, 'Only a few decades ago such an event would have been unthinkable. But, today we have strong relations with those who were once enemies.'

Knitted poppies have been a theme in many church commemoration. At Otley Parish Church in West Yorkshire, 16,000 poppies were knitted by members of the local community and arranged to flow down one wall of the church.

Local councillor Ray Georgeson praised the display, saying, 'This is a fabulous effort by all concerned to produce a fitting tribute to the hundreds of thousands of men, women and animals that fought so gallantly in the 1914-1918 war.' 

Inchture Kirk in Perthshire, Scotland, has been covered in 3,000 handmade poppies, with another 1,000 used for a display inside the building.

The display was the idea of Dr Ian Mellor, a consultant at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee who has also served as a medic in Iraq and Afghanistan.

'It's 100 years since what we hoped would be the war to end all wars,' he said.

'I thought we should recapture this hope.  We've only had one year since that time when our forces have not been involved in a conflict.

'WWI was the first industrialised war - it was so much worse than anyone imagined.  In my mind it's a chance for people to pay their respects.'

At Abbey Church in Dunfermline, Fife, some 4,000 handcrafted poppies have been sent in from around the world to decorate four commemorative banners draped from its balconies.

The church has also been open to the public for a special art installation called 'There, But Not There' incorporating cut-out silhouettes in the pews representing those who did not return from war.

In Wakefield Cathedral, a single poppy was projected onto the tower ahead of Remembrance Sunday. The tower was to be flooded with red light for the centenary service.

The Dean of Wakefield, the Very Rev Simon Cowling said: 'I hope that what we are offering will enable people of all faiths and no faith to feel a sense of community solidarity and to express a collective desire for peace and reconciliation between the nations.'

The Bishop of Aachen and soldiers from the city in western Germany are among the special guests at Halifax Minster's service of remembrance. 

'We are looking forward to welcoming them to the minster, a place that has served as a spiritual home for the Halifax regiment for hundreds of years, experiencing the sacrifice of soldiers from Waterloo up until the recent war in Afghanistan,' the cathedral said.