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Christianity sacred sites in England, United Kingdom
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St John the Baptist Church, Harrietsham
Harrietsham, England, United Kingdom
St John the Baptist Church has stood at the edge of the Pilgrim's Way corridor in the Kent North Downs since at least the Norman Conquest....
St John the Baptist Church, Puttenham
Puttenham, England, United Kingdom
St John the Baptist Church in Puttenham has stood beside the medieval Pilgrim's Way since the twelfth century....
St John's Church
Itchen Abbas, England, United Kingdom
St John the Baptist in Itchen Abbas has stood beside the River Itchen since the Norman period, its twelfth-century chancel arch still intact within a Victorian shell....
St John's Church
Glastonbury, England, United Kingdom
On Glastonbury's High Street stands a church where prayers have risen for eight centuries. St....
St Katharine's Church, Merstham
Merstham, England, United Kingdom
St Katharine's stands on one of Surrey's oldest continuously worshipped sites — over 1,350 years of Christian presence on a chalk ridgeway that became the Pilgrim's Way....
St Laurence Church, Seale
Seale, England, United Kingdom
St Laurence Church stands on the southern slopes of Surrey's Hog's Back, where the ancient trackway to Canterbury has passed for nearly a thousand years....
St Lawrence the Martyr Church, Godmersham
Godmersham, England, United Kingdom
St Lawrence the Martyr Church stands in the Stour Valley on the ancient Pilgrim's Way between Winchester and Canterbury....
St Margaret's Chapel
Glastonbury, England, United Kingdom
Behind a passageway on Magdalene Street, a small chapel and garden offer what Glastonbury's busier sites cannot: genuine quiet....
St Margaret's Churchyard, Darenth
Darenth, England, United Kingdom
One of Kent's oldest standing churches, St Margaret's rises quietly above the River Darent on a hillside stitched together from Saxon handiwork and Roman tiles....
St Martha-on-the-Hill
Guildford, England, United Kingdom
St Martha-on-the-Hill is an active Church of England parish church perched 573 feet above the Surrey countryside, reachable only on foot....
St Martin's Church, Canterbury
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
St Martin's Church in Canterbury is widely regarded as the oldest Christian site in continuous use in the English-speaking world, its walls woven from Roman brick laid...
St Martin's Church, Detling
Detling, England, United Kingdom
St Martin's Church stands at the heart of Detling village on the North Downs of Kent, directly on the ancient trackway that medieval pilgrims walked toward Canterbury....
St Mary the Virgin Church, Thurnham
Thurnham, England, United Kingdom
Set in a quiet Kentish lane, St Mary the Virgin is a Norman flint church whose churchyard the Pilgrim's Way literally passes through....
St Mary's and All Saints Church, Boxley
Boxley, England, United Kingdom
St Mary's and All Saints stands at the foot of the North Downs in Boxley village, a few hundred metres from the ancient Pilgrim's Way....
St Mary's Church
Easton, England, United Kingdom
St Mary's Church in Easton is a Grade I listed Norman parish church built around 1200, set in the chalk-stream valley of the Itchen two and three-quarter miles from...
St Mary's Church, Bentley
Bentley, England, United Kingdom
St Mary's Church in Bentley stands on the ancient east-west trackway that became the Pilgrim's Way from Winchester to Canterbury....
St Mary's Church, Chilham
Chilham, England, United Kingdom
St Mary's Church stands at the heart of Chilham village, a medieval waypoint on the Pilgrim's Way just 11.5 kilometres from Canterbury Cathedral....
St Mary's Church, Patrixbourne
Patrixbourne, England, United Kingdom
Standing four miles southeast of Canterbury, St Mary's Patrixbourne is one of the finest Norman parish churches in southeast England....
St Michael & All Angels Church, Harbledown
Harbledown, England, United Kingdom
Standing on the last ridge before Canterbury, St Michael & All Angels has marked the threshold of the great pilgrimage since Norman times....
St Nicholas Church, Bishop's Sutton
Bishop's Sutton, England, United Kingdom
St Nicholas Church in Bishop's Sutton is a Grade I listed Norman church built c.1150 by Henry de Blois, Bishop of Winchester....
St Nicholas Church, Chawton
Chawton, England, United Kingdom
St Nicholas Church, Chawton has served this Hampshire village since at least 1270, rebuilt in Victorian Gothic after a fire but retaining its medieval chancel....
St Nicholas Church, Thanington
Thanington, England, United Kingdom
A Norman flint church on the southwest fringe of Canterbury, St Nicholas Thanington has stood beside the pilgrim road for nearly nine hundred years....
St Nonna’s Church, Altarnun
Altarnun, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the edge of Bodmin Moor, St Nonna's Church has anchored nearly fifteen centuries of Christian worship on the site where a Welsh saint established her altar....
St Peter & St Paul's Church, Aylesford
Aylesford, England, United Kingdom
Standing on a promontory above the River Medway at Aylesford, St Peter and St Paul's has guided travellers on the Pilgrims' Way for centuries....
St Peter & St Paul's Church, Charing
Charing, England, United Kingdom
St Peter & St Paul's Church in Charing has served as the final major overnight halt on the Pilgrim's Way since the medieval period....
St Peter's Church, Ovington
Ovington, England, United Kingdom
St Peter's Church stands in the Itchen Valley village of Ovington as a functioning parish church and waymark on the ancient Pilgrim's Way from Winchester to Canterbury....
St Peter's Church, Ropley
Ropley, England, United Kingdom
St Peter's Church stands on a hilltop mound above Ropley village, its Norman origins visible beneath a Victorian skin and a hard-won modern restoration....
St Swithun's Church
Headbourne Worthy, England, United Kingdom
St Swithun's Church at Headbourne Worthy stands just outside Winchester on the ancient Pilgrim's Way, a small Saxon church built in deliberate dedication to the city's...
St. Albans Cathedral, St Albans, United Kingdom
St Albans, England, United Kingdom
St Albans Cathedral stands where Alban, Britain's first recorded Christian martyr, was executed around the third or fourth century....
St. Andrew’s Church, Bishopstone, England
Seaford, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the Sussex Downs where Christians have worshipped since the seventh or eighth century, St Andrew's Church preserves some of England's most remarkable...
St. Edmundsbury Cathedral
West Suffolk, England, United Kingdom
St Edmundsbury Cathedral rises beside the ruins of one of medieval England's mightiest abbeys, on ground that held the shrine of St Edmund, the nation's first patron saint....
St. Mary Church, Temple Guitling
Cotswold District, England, United Kingdom
Founded around 1170 by the Knights Templar, St. Mary's Church stands at the edge of Temple Guiting, overlooking the Windrush Valley....
St. Michael's Mount
Marazion, England, United Kingdom
St Michael's Mount rises from Mount's Bay like a vision—a granite island crowned by medieval castle and chapel, connected to shore by a causeway that appears and vanishes...
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England
City of London, England, United Kingdom
St. Paul's Cathedral has occupied Ludgate Hill for over 1,400 years, through fire and war, reformation and rebuilding....
St. Withburga’s Well
Breckland District, England, United Kingdom
In the churchyard of St Nicholas Church in East Dereham, a spring has flowed for over a thousand years from the empty tomb of an Anglo-Saxon abbess....
Tewkesbury Abbey
Tewkesbury, England, United Kingdom
Rising above the confluence of the Severn and Avon rivers, Tewkesbury Abbey has held continuous Christian worship since the 7th century....
The Bishop's Palace, Halling
Halling, England, United Kingdom
The Bishop's Palace at Halling is a fragmentary medieval ruin — a single standing wall of a Great Hall once at the heart of episcopal Kent — set in the churchyard of an...
The Friars, Aylesford Priory
Aylesford, England, United Kingdom
Founded in 1242 on the banks of the Medway, Aylesford Priory is the cradle of the English Carmelite Order and home to the relic of St Simon Stock....
Wearyall Hill & Holy Thorn
Glastonbury, England, United Kingdom
An open hilltop rises above Glastonbury, marking where—according to legend—Joseph of Arimathea first set foot in Britain....
Wells Cathedral
Wells, England, United Kingdom
Wells Cathedral lifts its scissor arches above springs that were sacred before Christianity reached Britain....
Winchester Buttercross
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
The Buttercross is a 15th-century devotional cross at the heart of Winchester High Street, bearing carved figures of saints including St Swithun....
Winchester Cathedral
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
Winchester Cathedral has stood at the spiritual heart of England for over 1,300 years....
Winchester Cathedral
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
At 558 feet, Winchester Cathedral stretches further than any medieval church in the world....
Worcester Cathedral
Worcester, England, United Kingdom
Rising above the River Severn, Worcester Cathedral has held continuous Christian worship since 680 AD. Two canonized saints once drew pilgrims here to rival Canterbury....
Wrotham
Wrotham, England, United Kingdom
St George's Church stands on a downland slope in Wrotham, its Norman core and soaring 15th-century tower marking a waypoint on the Pilgrims' Way....
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