Sacred sites in England

Nine Ladies Stone Circle

Stanton in Peak, England, United Kingdom

Nine Ladies is an Early Bronze Age stone circle on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire, set within a much wider prehistoric landscape of barrows, cairns, and standing stones....

Nine Maidens stone ring, Cornwall

St. Columb Major, England, United Kingdom

On the high moorland of West Penwith, where Atlantic winds sweep across granite and gorse, the Nine Maidens stand in their ancient circle....

Nine Stones Close Stone Circle, Youlgreave

Derbyshire Dales, England, United Kingdom

Four weathered stones stand sentinel on Harthill Moor, remnants of a Bronze Age circle that once framed the setting Moon between the twin pillars of Robin Hood's Stride....

Norwich Cathedral

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

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

Nottingham Cathedral

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Nottingham Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in England. Nottingham Cathedral is interpreted here through Roman Catholic Christianity....

Otford

Otford, England, United Kingdom

For nearly six hundred years, Otford's moated manor and later Tudor palace served as a residence of the Archbishops of Canterbury, standing directly on the Pilgrims' Way...

Our Lady and St. Annes Church

Reading, England, United Kingdom

In 1896, Bishop Edward Ilsley established a Catholic parish in Caversham with 13 people at its first Mass....

Our Lady of Caversham

Inside Our Lady and St. Annes Church

Reading, England, United Kingdom

For over 500 years, pilgrims traveled along the Thames to pray before Our Lady of Caversham, England's second most important Marian shrine after Walsingham....

Our Lady of Walsingham

North Norfolk, England, United Kingdom

Walsingham, a small Norfolk village, has been England's principal Marian pilgrimage site since 1061, when the noblewoman Richeldis de Faverches was said to have been led...

Peterborough Cathedral

Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

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

Pilgrims Rest Statue

Lenham, England, United Kingdom

Brother Percival is a life-sized wooden sculpture of a resting monk, installed in 2007 on the Pilgrim's Way between Harrietsham and Lenham in Kent....

Portsmouth Cathedral

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

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

Quarr Abbey

Ryde, England, United Kingdom

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

Reigate

Reigate, England, United Kingdom

In the thirteenth century, Reigate's High Street held a chapel dedicated to Thomas Becket and an adjoining hospice for travelers making their way toward his shrine at...

Rievaulx Abbey

Rievaulx, England, United Kingdom

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

Ripon Cathedral

Ripon, England, United Kingdom

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

Rochester Cathedral

Rochester, England, United Kingdom

Rochester Cathedral has stood at the Medway crossing since AD 604, making it one of the oldest sites of continuous Christian worship in England....

Rollright Stones

West Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Three prehistoric monuments spanning nearly two thousand years crown this Cotswold ridge: a stone circle, a solitary king, and whispering knights plotting in stone....

Roman Baths of Bath (Temple of Sulis Minerva)

Bath, England, United Kingdom

At Bath, Britain's only natural hot springs bubble up from deep within the earth at 46 degrees Celsius, as they have for millennia....

Romsey Abbey

Romsey, England, United Kingdom

Romsey Abbey belongs among the significant living Christian places of England. The sacred frame at Romsey Abbey comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition....

Rudston Monolith

Rudston, England, United Kingdom

Rising nearly eight meters from a Yorkshire churchyard, the Rudston Monolith has anchored human spiritual activity for over four millennia....

Salford Cathedral

Salford, England, United Kingdom

Salford Cathedral stands in England as a major cathedral site. At Salford Cathedral, Roman Catholic Christianity provides the public sacred context....

Salisbury Cathedral

Salisbury, England, United Kingdom

Salisbury Cathedral lifts Britain's tallest spire 404 feet toward heaven, a medieval achievement that still commands the Wiltshire landscape....

Selby Abbey

Selby, England, United Kingdom

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

Sheffield Cathedral

Sheffield, England, United Kingdom

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

Sherborne Abbey

Sherborne, England, United Kingdom

Sherborne Abbey has witnessed Christian worship since 705 CE, when St Aldhelm established his cathedral in the heart of Wessex....

Shrine of St Margaret Clitherow

York, England, United Kingdom

Shrine of St Margaret Clitherow belongs among the significant pilgrimage places of England....

Silbury Hill

West Kennet, England, United Kingdom

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

Southwark Cathedral

London, England, United Kingdom

Southwark Cathedral stands at London's oldest river crossing as the official starting point of the Becket Way — the 90-mile pilgrimage to Canterbury Thomas Becket himself...

Southwell Minster

Southwell, England, United Kingdom

Southwell Minster is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in England....

St Augustine's Abbey

Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Founded in 598 CE by Augustine of Canterbury on land granted by the Kentish king, this ruined Benedictine abbey is the birthplace of organised Christianity in Anglo-Saxon...

St Barnabas Church, Ranmore

Ranmore Common, England, United Kingdom

St Barnabas Church stands at 700 feet on Ranmore Common, its Victorian spire rising above Surrey woodland on the North Downs ridge followed by medieval pilgrims to...

St Bartholomew-the-Great

London, England, United Kingdom

St Bartholomew-the-Great is a nationally or regionally important living Christian place in England....

St Bartholomew's Church, Otford

Otford, England, United Kingdom

St Bartholomew's stands at the heart of Otford village, where the Winchester and London arms of the Pilgrim's Way converge....

St Bartholomew's Church, Winchester

Winchester, England, United Kingdom

St Bartholomew's is the sole surviving structure of Hyde Abbey, the Benedictine monastery where King Alfred the Great was buried in 1110....

St Botolph's Church, Chevening

Chevening, England, United Kingdom

St Botolph's stands on the North Downs ridge where the Pilgrim's Way has wound since before Christianity....

St Catherine's Hill and Chapel

Guildford, England, United Kingdom

St Catherine's Hill rises from the Surrey sandstone above Guildford, its roofless 14th-century chapel marking the Pilgrim's Way south of the River Wey....

St Chad's Cathedral

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

St Chad's Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in England. St Chad's Cathedral is interpreted here through Roman Catholic Christianity....

St Christopher's Chapel, Boughton Lees

Boughton Lees, England, United Kingdom

St Christopher's Chapel stands on the Pilgrims' Way in the Kent village of Boughton Lees — a converted medieval hall house dedicated to the patron saint of travellers....

St Dunstan's Church, Canterbury

Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

St Dunstan's stands just outside Canterbury's medieval West Gate — the last church a pilgrim passed before entering the city....

St Edith's Well, Kemsing

Kemsing, England, United Kingdom

At a quiet junction in Kemsing village stands a small, grilled well traditionally identified as the birthplace of Saint Edith of Wilton, born here around 961....

St George the Martyr Church, Borough

London, England, United Kingdom

Standing at the exact junction where medieval London gave way to the road to Canterbury, St George the Martyr has served as a gateway church for nine centuries....

St George's Cathedral, Southwark

London, England, United Kingdom

St George's Cathedral, Southwark belongs among the significant cathedral places of England....

St James's Church, Shere

Shere, England, United Kingdom

St James's Church in Shere is a Norman and Early English parish church on the ancient Pilgrim's Way through the Surrey Hills....

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....