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St. Beuno shrine and well, Clynnog Fawr, Wales
Clynnog Fawr, Gwynedd, United Kingdom
In Clynnog Fawr, on the pilgrim road to Bardsey Island, stands one of the great churches of North Wales. St Beuno founded his community here in 616 AD....
St. Winefride’s Well
Holywell, Wales, United Kingdom
In a Welsh hillside, water has flowed from the earth for thirteen centuries. Pilgrims have come to bathe in it since before anyone thought to record their names....
Our Lady of Cardigan, Wales
Cardigan, Ceredigion, United Kingdom
In medieval Cardigan, a statue of Mary and the Christ Child was found beside the River Teifi, a burning taper in her hand....
St. Michael's Mount
Marazion, Cornwall, 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. Beuno’s Church and Well, Clynnog Fawr, Wales
Clynnog Fawr, Gwynedd, United Kingdom
Nestled in the hills above Clynnog Fawr, St Beuno's Well has drawn the sick and seeking since the seventh century....
St. Cybi’s Church
Holyhead, Anglesey, United Kingdom
On the western edge of Anglesey, St Cybi's Church rises within the walls of a fourth-century Roman fort, a visible testimony to the continuity of sacred purpose across...
Carn Ingli
Newport, Cymru / Wales, United Kingdom
Rising above the ancient town of Newport in Pembrokeshire, Carn Ingli takes its name from the 6th-century saint Brynach, who climbed to this rocky summit to pray and there...
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 Non’s Chapel and Well
St Davids, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom
South of St Davids, on a cliff overlooking the sea, stands a roofless chapel. Here, according to tradition, St Non gave birth to David, patron saint of Wales, during a...
St. Mary’s Church, Dolgellau
Dolgellau, Gwynedd, United Kingdom
St Mary's stands at the heart of Dolgellau, unusual among Welsh churches for its Georgian architecture but holding medieval treasures within....
St. Davids and St. Non's, Wales
St Davids, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom
Two pilgrimages to St Davids equaled one to Rome, declared the medieval popes, recognizing what Welsh Christians already knew....
Canterbury Cathedral
Canterbury, England, United Kingdom
Canterbury Cathedral has drawn pilgrims for over eight centuries, since four knights murdered Archbishop Thomas Becket at the altar in 1170....
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 Brynach’s Church
Nevern, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom
In a quiet Pembrokeshire churchyard, an avenue of ancient yews leads to the finest Celtic cross in Wales....
St David’s Cathedral
St Davids, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom
At the western edge of Wales, in Britain's smallest city, a cathedral rests in a hollow. St David founded his monastery here in the 6th century....
Bath
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....
Fortingall Yew Tree and Church, Perthshire, Scotland
Fortingall, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
In a small churchyard at the mouth of Scotland's longest glen stands a yew tree that may have been ancient when the pyramids were young....
Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
When King Edward II was murdered at Berkeley Castle in 1327, other abbeys refused his body....
Durham Cathedral
Durham, England, United Kingdom
For 120 years, monks fleeing Vikings carried the body of St. Cuthbert across northern England....
Rosslyn
Roslin, Midlothian, United Kingdom
Rosslyn Chapel rises from the Scottish landscape like a vision carved in stone. Every surface of this small fifteenth-century building carries carvings of extraordinary...
St. Fillan’s Cave, Pittenweem, Scotland
Pittenweem, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
Beneath the fishing village of Pittenweem lies a cave where the Irish missionary Fillan once prayed in solitude, his glowing arm said to illuminate the scriptures in...
St John's Church
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
On Glastonbury's High Street stands a church where prayers have risen for eight centuries. St....
Wearyall Hill & Holy Thorn
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
An open hilltop rises above Glastonbury, marking where—according to legend—Joseph of Arimathea first set foot in Britain....
Bride's Mound
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
Behind an industrial estate on Glastonbury's western edge, a small mound rises from a field. Few visitors find it....
St Margaret's Chapel
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
Behind a passageway on Magdalene Street, a small chapel and garden offer what Glastonbury's busier sites cannot: genuine quiet....
Glastonbury Abbey
Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom
Glastonbury Abbey was once the second richest monastery in England, claiming to be the oldest Christian foundation in Britain....
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....
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....
Lincoln
Lincoln, England, United Kingdom
Lincoln most commonly refers to: Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the 16th president of the United States Lincoln, England, cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire,...
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....
Lindisfarne
Holy Island, England, United Kingdom
A tidal island off the Northumberland coast, Lindisfarne has drawn pilgrims for nearly fourteen centuries....
Wells Cathedral
Wells, England, United Kingdom
Wells Cathedral lifts its scissor arches above springs that were sacred before Christianity reached Britain....
Struell Wells, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland
Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Hidden in a secluded valley near Downpatrick, Struell Wells has drawn seekers for over a millennium....
Ffynnon Santes Gwenfaen well
Trearddur, Wales, United Kingdom
Ffynnon Santes Gwenfaen well is a well of sacred significance.
Our Lady of Caversham
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....
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. Mary’s
Cotswold District, England, United Kingdom
In a quiet Cotswold valley, a medieval church carries the mark of the Knights Templar....
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. 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....
Ely Cathedral
Ely, England, United Kingdom
Rising from the flat fenlands of East Anglia like a ship on a calm sea, Ely Cathedral has anchored worship on this site since the 7th century....
Abbots Way between Buckfast Abbey and Tavistock Abbey, Dartmoor, England
Teignbridge, England, United Kingdom
Abbots Way between Buckfast Abbey and Tavistock Abbey, Dartmoor, England is a pathway of sacred significance.
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....
Iona
The Village, Scotland, United Kingdom
Iona (; Scottish Gaelic: Ì Chaluim Chille [ˈiː ˈxal̪ˠɪm ˈçiʎə] , sometimes simply Ì) is an island in the Inner Hebrides, off the Ross of Mull on the western coast of...
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....
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...
Winchester Cathedral
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
At 558 feet, Winchester Cathedral stretches further than any medieval church in the world....
Bardsey Island
Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom
Bardsey Island (Welsh: Ynys Enlli), known as the legendary "Island of 20,000 Saints", is located 1.9 miles (3.1 km) off the Llŷn Peninsula in the Welsh county of Gwynedd......
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....
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....
Glastonbury
Glastonbury, England, United Kingdom
Glastonbury ( GLAST-ən-bər-ee, UK also GLAHST-) is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated at a dry point on the low-lying Somerset Levels, 23 miles (37 km)....
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....
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...
Cranfield Church, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Antrim and Newtownabbey District, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
On the northern shore of Lough Neagh, Ireland's largest lake, the ruins of Cranfield Church mark the traditional burial place of St Olcan, a disciple of St Patrick....
Exeter Cathedral
Exeter, England, United Kingdom
Rising from foundations that have witnessed Roman soldiers, Saxon monks, and Norman bishops, Exeter Cathedral holds the longest uninterrupted medieval vaulted ceiling in...
Dunadd sacred hill, Lochgilphead, Scotland
Bridgend, Scotland, United Kingdom
A rocky crag rises from the ancient Great Moss at the mouth of Kilmartin Glen. On its summit, a footprint carved into living rock marks the place where the Gaelic kings of...
Ladyewell Marian Shrine, Fernyhalgh, England
Preston, England, United Kingdom
Ladyewell Marian Shrine, Fernyhalgh, England is a shrine of sacred significance.
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. 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....
Downpatrick
Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Downpatrick (from Irish Dún Pádraig, meaning 'Patrick's fort') is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland....
Iona Abbey
Isle of Iona, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
Iona Abbey stands on a small Hebridean island where St Columba founded a monastery in AD 563....
Barpa Langass
Lochmaddy, United Kingdom
On the western flank of Ben Langass, a massive dome of stone rises from the moorland of North Uist....
Stanydale Temple
Bixter, United Kingdom
On a treeless hillside in western Shetland, a heel-shaped stone structure stands open to the sky....
Callanish Standing Stone Circle
Callanish, United Kingdom
On the Atlantic edge of Lewis, thirteen standing stones form a circle older than the main phase of Stonehenge....
Pobull Fhinn
Lochmaddy, United Kingdom
On the southern slope of Ben Langass, overlooking Loch Langass and the mountain Eaval, an oval of standing stones occupies a platform that Bronze Age hands carved from the...
Lund Standing Stone
Baltasound, United Kingdom
On the low moorland of southwest Unst, the most northerly inhabited island in the British Isles, a massive gneiss boulder stands roughly 3.8 metres tall with a girth...
Underhoull Longhouse
Baltasound, United Kingdom
On a windswept slope above Lunda Wick on the island of Unst, the ruins of an Iron Age broch and three Norse longhouses occupy the same ground....
Broch of Clickimin
Lerwick, United Kingdom
On a small islet in Clickimin Loch, within walking distance of Lerwick, stands a broch complex spanning nearly 2,000 years of continuous habitation....
Hill of the Angels
Iona, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
A smooth grass-covered knoll rises from the flat central plain of Iona, the island Columba chose for his monastery in 563....
Brough of Deerness Chapel
Deerness, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
On the eastern tip of Orkney's Mainland, a grass-topped promontory rises from the North Sea, connected to the land by a narrow neck of eroded rock....
Eshaness Broch
Hillswick, United Kingdom
On a promontory in the Loch of Houlland, reached by stone causeways across the water, the Broch of Houlland rises to four metres against the sky of northwest Shetland....
Brough of Birsay
Birsay, Orkney Islands, United Kingdom
The Brough of Birsay rises from the sea off the northwest coast of Orkney, reachable only when the tide withdraws....
Macleod's Stone
Tarbert, United Kingdom
On a small hillock above Traigh Iar beach on the west coast of Harris, a single standing stone has held its ground for approximately five thousand years....
Reineval Chambered Cairn
Lochboisdale, United Kingdom
On the northern slope of Beinn Reineabhal, overlooking the valley that descends to Mingarry and the Atlantic beyond, a massive stone mound rises from the moorland....
Callanish Stone Circle III
Callanish, United Kingdom
On a low ridge southeast of the main Callanish Stones, a double concentric ring of Lewisian gneiss has stood for nearly five thousand years....
Our Lady of Czestochowa (Camden Town)
London, England, United Kingdom
Black Madonna shrine known for Belgian connection, historic devotion from Halle, England
Ronas Hill Chambered Cairn
North Roe, United Kingdom
On the summit of Shetland's highest hill, Neolithic builders placed a chambered cairn for their dead....
Callanish Stone Circle 8
Callanish, United Kingdom
On the southern coast of Great Bernera, three standing stones and one fallen companion form a semicircle at the edge of a sheer cliff above Loch Roag....
Dun Carloway Broch
Carloway, United Kingdom
On a rocky knoll above East Loch Roag, the walls of Dun Carloway Broch still rise nine metres without mortar....
Callanish 4 Stone Circle
Callanish, United Kingdom
On rising ground above Loch Ceann Hulabhig, five standing stones of Lewisian gneiss form a quiet oval around a small burial cairn....
MacLean's Cross
Iona, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
MacLean's Cross stands where three medieval paths once met on the Isle of Iona, between the nunnery and the abbey....
The Street of the Dead
Iona, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
The Street of the Dead is a cobbled medieval processional way on the Isle of Iona, running from Martyrs Bay to the ancient burial ground of Reilig Odhrain beside Iona...
Callanish II Stone Circle
Callanish, United Kingdom
On a low ridge overlooking East Loch Roag, five standing stones and two fallen slabs trace an ellipse that once held ten uprights around a central cairn....
Culswick Broch
Walls, United Kingdom
On a conical hilltop above the western coast of Shetland, the walls of Culswick Broch still stand in local red granite, warm-coloured and resolute after two thousand years....
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