Sacred sites in England

Adam and Eve Stones, Avebury

Beckhampton, England, United Kingdom

A mile from Avebury, two massive stones stand in a field that most visitors never reach....

All Saints, Blackheath

London, England, United Kingdom

All Saints' Blackheath stands at the threshold between London and the open road south....

All Saints' Church, Boughton Aluph

Boughton Aluph, England, United Kingdom

All Saints' Church stands directly on the Pilgrim's Way in the Kent village of Boughton Aluph, where it has sheltered travellers bound for Canterbury since the 12th...

Ampleforth Abbey

York, England, United Kingdom

Ampleforth Abbey is a nationally or regionally important living Christian place in England....

Arbor Low

Monyash, England, United Kingdom

Arbor Low belongs among the significant prehistoric places of England. The sacred frame at Arbor Low comes from Prehistoric ritual and funerary traditions....

Archbishop's Palace, Charing

Charing, England, United Kingdom

On the edge of Charing village stands a great medieval hall that once housed the Archbishops of Canterbury on their journeys between London and Canterbury....

Arundel Cathedral

Arundel, England, United Kingdom

Arundel Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of England. The sacred frame at Arundel Cathedral comes from Roman Catholic Christianity....

Avebury

Avebury, England, United Kingdom

Avebury surrounds you rather than keeping you at a distance. Unlike its famous neighbor Stonehenge, this vast Neolithic monument invites you to walk among its massive...

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London

London, England, United Kingdom

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London is a nationally or regionally important multi-faith place in England. baps shri swaminarayan is interpreted here through Hinduism....

Bath Abbey

Bath, England, United Kingdom

Bath Abbey stands in England as a major living Christian site. At Bath Abbey, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition provides the public sacred context....

Battle Abbey

Battle, England, United Kingdom

Battle Abbey belongs among the significant monastic places of England. The sacred frame at Battle Abbey comes from Christian monastic tradition....

Belas Knap Long Barrow

Tewkesbury, England, United Kingdom

On a Cotswold ridge, 5,800 years of presence wait in a grassy mound 178 feet long....

Beverley Minster

Beverley, England, United Kingdom

Rising from the market town of Beverley in East Yorkshire, this Gothic minster has witnessed over 1,300 years of continuous worship since St John of Beverley founded a...

Bevis Marks Synagogue

London, England, United Kingdom

Bevis Marks Synagogue stands in England as a major multi-faith site. At Bevis Marks Synagogue, Judaism provides the public sacred context....

Black Prince's Well

Harbledown, England, United Kingdom

A medieval healing spring on the hillside of Harbledown, the Black Prince's Well is the last sacred stop on the Pilgrim's Way before Canterbury Cathedral appears on the...

Blackburn Cathedral

Blackburn, England, United Kingdom

Blackburn Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in England....

Boscawen-un Stone Circle

St Buryan, England, United Kingdom

In the fields near St Buryan in Cornwall, nineteen granite stones form an ellipse around a leaning central pillar bearing axe carvings found nowhere else in Britain....

Boxley Abbey

Boxley, England, United Kingdom

Boxley Abbey was a Cistercian house on the Pilgrim's Way that housed the Rood of Grace, a life-size articulated crucifix believed by medieval pilgrims to move its eyes and...

Bradford Cathedral

Bradford, England, United Kingdom

Bradford Cathedral stands in England as a major cathedral site. At Bradford Cathedral, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition provides the public sacred context....

Bride's Mound

Glastonbury, England, United Kingdom

Behind an industrial estate on Glastonbury's western edge, a small mound rises from a field. Few visitors find it....

Brimham Rocks

Summerbridge, England, United Kingdom

Brimham Rocks is a protected North Yorkshire moorland of towers, balancing forms, passages, and weathered millstone grit....

Bristol Cathedral

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Bristol Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of England. The sacred frame at Bristol Cathedral comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian...

Brisworthy Stone Circle

Shaugh Prior, England, United Kingdom

On the windswept heights of Ringmoor Down, twenty-four weathered granite stones mark a space where Bronze Age communities gathered four thousand years ago....

Buckfast Abbey

Buckfastleigh, England, United Kingdom

Buckfast Abbey stands in England as a major living Christian site. At Buckfast Abbey, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition provides the public sacred context....

Buddhapadipa Temple

London, England, United Kingdom

Buddhapadipa Temple belongs among the significant multi-faith places of England. The sacred frame at Buddhapadipa Temple comes from Buddhism....

Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Canterbury Cathedral stands at the end of the Pilgrim's Way as the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the site of Thomas Becket's martyrdom in 1170....

Carlisle Cathedral

Carlisle, England, United Kingdom

Carlisle Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of England. The sacred frame at Carlisle Cathedral comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian...

Carwynnen Quoit

Camborne, England, United Kingdom

Near Camborne in Cornwall, a ten-ton capstone once again rests on its supporting pillars, restored in 2014 after lying collapsed for nearly five decades....

Castlerigg stone ring

Keswick, England, United Kingdom

On a plateau near Keswick in the Lake District, forty stones form one of Britain's earliest and most atmospheric prehistoric monuments....

Cerne Abas Giant

Cerne Abbas, England, United Kingdom

The Cerne Abbas Giant rises from Dorset's chalk downs as one of Britain's most enigmatic monuments....

Chalice Well Gardens

Glastonbury, England, United Kingdom

At the foot of Glastonbury Tor, iron-stained waters have flowed without ceasing for over two thousand years. Christian pilgrims come seeking the Holy Grail....

Chanctonbury Rings, Findon, West Sussex, England

Horsham, England, United Kingdom

Rising from the South Downs like a crown of trees visible for miles, Chanctonbury Ring has drawn seekers for over three thousand years....

Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag, Knaresborough, England

Knaresborough, England, United Kingdom

Hewn from sandstone cliffs above the River Nidd in 1408, the Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag stands as one of Britain's oldest wayside shrines....

Chelmsford Cathedral

Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

Chelmsford Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in England....

Chester Cathedral

Chester, England, United Kingdom

Chester Cathedral stands in England as a major cathedral site. At Chester Cathedral, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition provides the public sacred context....

Chichester Cathedral

Chichester, England, United Kingdom

Chichester Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of England. The sacred frame at Chichester Cathedral comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian...

Chilham

Chilham, England, United Kingdom

St Mary's, Chilham, is an active Church of England parish church on the Pilgrims' Way, its congregation traditionally dated to the 7th century and documented in the...

Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford belongs among the significant cathedral places of England....

Christ Church Gate

Part of Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Christ Church Gate is the ceremonial entrance to Canterbury Cathedral precincts and the final threshold of the Pilgrim's Way from Winchester....

Christ Church, Shooters Hill

London, England, United Kingdom

Perched near the summit of the highest point in the London Borough of Greenwich, Christ Church stands on the ancient Watling Street — the Roman road that carried medieval...

Chun Quoit

Bojewyan, England, United Kingdom

Rising from the West Penwith moorland, Chun Quoit is Cornwall's best-preserved Neolithic chambered tomb....

Church of St Frideswide, Oxford, England

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

In the Latin Chapel of Christ Church Cathedral, fragments of stone reassembled after 400 years form the reconstructed shrine of St Frideswide, the woman who founded...

Church of St Martha-on-the-Hill

Chilworth, England, United Kingdom

St Martha-on-the-Hill is an active Anglican church at the summit of a 574-foot Surrey hilltop, standing where pilgrims have paused since the Norman era. Foot access only....

Church of St. Mary and St. Edwin, Evesham, England

Wychavon, England, United Kingdom

In the center of Evesham, a Gothic Revival church carries forward a devotion that Henry VIII tried to end....

Church of St. Mary’s

Cotswold District, England, United Kingdom

In a quiet Cotswold valley, a medieval church carries the mark of the Knights Templar....

Church of the Holy Rood, Holybourne

Holybourne, England, United Kingdom

The Church of the Holy Rood stands beside the spring that gave Holybourne its name — haligburna, Old English for sacred stream....

Cissbury Ring, Findon, West Sussex, England

Worthing, England, United Kingdom

Rising above the Sussex Weald, Cissbury Ring holds evidence of five thousand years of human presence....

Cleeve Abbey

Washford, England, United Kingdom

Cleeve Abbey stands in England as a major monastic site. At Cleeve Abbey, Christian monastic tradition provides the public sacred context....