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Church sacred sites in United Kingdom
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Beverley Minster
Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, 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...
St. Mary’s Church, Haddington, Scotland
Haddington, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
Known as the Lamp of Lothian, St Mary's has held worship since the twelfth century....
St John's Church
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
On Glastonbury's High Street stands a church where prayers have risen for eight centuries. St....
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...
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. 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....
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 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's Church, Ovington
Ovington, Ovington, Hampshire, 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....
Wrotham
Wrotham, Kent, 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....
St Bartholomew's Church, Winchester
Winchester, Winchester, Hampshire, 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 Mary's Church, Chilham
Chilham, Chilham, Kent, 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 Swithun's Church
Headbourne Worthy, Martyr Worthy/near Winchester, Hampshire, 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 Peter & St Paul's Church, Charing
Charing, Charing, Kent, 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 Mary the Virgin Church, Thurnham
Thurnham, Thurnham, Kent, 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 Church, Bentley
Bentley, Bentley, Hampshire, 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 Martha-on-the-Hill
Guildford, Guildford, Surrey, 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 Nicholas Church, Thanington
Thanington, Thanington, Kent, 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 George the Martyr Church, Borough
London, Southwark, Greater London, 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 Michael & All Angels Church, Harbledown
Harbledown, Harbledown, Kent, 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 Dunstan's Church, Canterbury
Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom
St Dunstan's stands just outside Canterbury's medieval West Gate — the last church a pilgrim passed before entering the city....
St Botolph's Church, Chevening
Chevening, Chevening, Kent, United Kingdom
St Botolph's stands on the North Downs ridge where the Pilgrim's Way has wound since before Christianity....
St Nicholas Church, Bishop's Sutton
Bishop's Sutton, Bishop's Sutton, Hampshire, 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 John's Church
Itchen Abbas, Itchen Abbas/near Winchester, Hampshire, 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 Mary's Church
Easton, Easton/near Winchester, Hampshire, 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 Martin's Church, Detling
Detling, Detling, Kent, 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 John the Baptist Church, Puttenham
Puttenham, Puttenham, Surrey, United Kingdom
St John the Baptist Church in Puttenham has stood beside the medieval Pilgrim's Way since the twelfth century....
St John the Baptist Church, Harrietsham
Harrietsham, Harrietsham, Kent, 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 Mary's and All Saints Church, Boxley
Boxley, Boxley, Kent, 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 Lawrence the Martyr Church, Godmersham
Godmersham, Godmersham, Kent, United Kingdom
St Lawrence the Martyr Church stands in the Stour Valley on the ancient Pilgrim's Way between Winchester and Canterbury....
St Nicholas Church, Chawton
Chawton, Chawton, Hampshire, 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 Bartholomew's Church, Otford
Otford, Otford, Kent, United Kingdom
St Bartholomew's stands at the heart of Otford village, where the Winchester and London arms of the Pilgrim's Way converge....
Church of St Martha-on-the-Hill
Chilworth, St Martha, Surrey, 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....
St Mary's Church, Patrixbourne
Patrixbourne, Patrixbourne, Kent, United Kingdom
Standing four miles southeast of Canterbury, St Mary's Patrixbourne is one of the finest Norman parish churches in southeast England....
St Peter's Church, Ropley
Ropley, Ropley, Hampshire, 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 Barnabas Church, Ranmore
Ranmore Common, Ranmore Common, Surrey, 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 Peter & St Paul's Church, Aylesford
Aylesford, Aylesford, Kent, 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....
All Saints' Church, Boughton Aluph
Boughton Aluph, Boughton Aluph, Kent, 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...
Chilham
Chilham, Kent, 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, Shooters Hill
London, Shooters Hill, Greater London, 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...
St Laurence Church, Seale
Seale, Seale, Surrey, 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....
Church of the Holy Rood, Holybourne
Holybourne, Holybourne, Hampshire, United Kingdom
The Church of the Holy Rood stands beside the spring that gave Holybourne its name — haligburna, Old English for sacred stream....
St Katharine's Church, Merstham
Merstham, Merstham, Surrey, 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....
All Saints, Blackheath
London, Blackheath, Greater London, United Kingdom
All Saints' Blackheath stands at the threshold between London and the open road south....
St James's Church, Shere
Shere, Shere, Surrey, 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 Martin's Church, Canterbury
Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, 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...
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