Christianity sacred sites in United Kingdom

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...

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....

Barpa Langass

Lochmaddy, Scotland, United Kingdom

On the western flank of Ben Langass, a massive dome of stone rises from the moorland of North Uist....

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...

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...

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....

Broch of Clickimin

Lerwick, Scotland, 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....

Brough of Birsay

Birsay, Scotland, United Kingdom

The Brough of Birsay rises from the sea off the northwest coast of Orkney, reachable only when the tide withdraws....

Brough of Deerness Chapel

Deerness, Scotland, 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....

Callanish 4 Stone Circle

Callanish, Scotland, United Kingdom

On rising ground above Loch Ceann Hulabhig, five standing stones of Lewisian gneiss form a quiet oval around a small burial cairn....

Callanish II Stone Circle

Callanish, Scotland, 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....

Callanish Standing Stone Circle

Callanish, Scotland, United Kingdom

On the Atlantic edge of Lewis, thirteen standing stones form a circle older than the main phase of Stonehenge....

Callanish Stone Circle 8

Callanish, Scotland, 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....

Callanish Stone Circle III

Callanish, Scotland, 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....

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....

Carn Ingli

Newport, 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...

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....

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 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...

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....

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....

Culswick Broch

Walls, Scotland, 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....

Dun Carloway Broch

Carloway, Scotland, United Kingdom

On a rocky knoll above East Loch Roag, the walls of Dun Carloway Broch still rise nine metres without mortar....

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...

Durham Cathedral

Durham, England, United Kingdom

For 120 years, monks fleeing Vikings carried the body of St. Cuthbert across northern England....

Eastbridge Hospital of St Thomas the Martyr

Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Eastbridge Hospital has stood on Canterbury's High Street since around 1180, built to receive exhausted pilgrims arriving to venerate Thomas Becket....

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....

Eshaness Broch

Hillswick, Scotland, 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....

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...

Farnham Castle

Farnham, England, United Kingdom

Farnham grew up around a castle built in 1138 by Henry of Blois, Bishop of Winchester, and the parish church of St Andrew, whose worship continues unbroken from at least...

Fortingall Yew Tree and Church, Perthshire, Scotland

Fortingall, 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....

Glastonbury Abbey

Glastonbury, England, United Kingdom

Glastonbury Abbey was once the second richest monastery in England, claiming to be the oldest Christian foundation in Britain....

Gloucester Cathedral

Gloucester, England, United Kingdom

When King Edward II was murdered at Berkeley Castle in 1327, other abbeys refused his body....

Hill of the Angels

Iona, Scotland, United Kingdom

A smooth grass-covered knoll rises from the flat central plain of Iona, the island Columba chose for his monastery in 563....

Iona Abbey

Isle of Iona, Scotland, United Kingdom

Iona Abbey stands on a small Hebridean island where St Columba founded a monastery in AD 563....

Lenham Cross

Lenham, England, United Kingdom

Lenham Cross is a 200-foot Latin cross carved in compacted chalk on the south-facing scarp of the North Downs....

Lesnes Abbey

London, England, United Kingdom

Lesnes Abbey stands in southeast London as a ruin built from guilt. Founded in 1178 by Richard de Luci — the man whose loyalty to Henry II helped trigger the murder of...

Lindisfarne

Holy Island, England, United Kingdom

A tidal island off the Northumberland coast, Lindisfarne has drawn pilgrims for nearly fourteen centuries....

Lund Standing Stone

Baltasound, Scotland, 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...

MacLean's Cross

Iona, Scotland, United Kingdom

MacLean's Cross stands where three medieval paths once met on the Isle of Iona, between the nunnery and the abbey....

Macleod's Stone

Tarbert, Scotland, 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....

New Alresford

New Alresford, England, United Kingdom

New Alresford is a planned medieval market town founded around 1200 by the Bishops of Winchester, its Grade II*-listed Soke Bridge still carrying the old Winchester-London...