Christianity sacred sites in United Kingdom

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 Cardigan, Wales

Cardigan, Wales, 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....

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...

Pobull Fhinn

Lochmaddy, Scotland, 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...

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...

Reineval Chambered Cairn

Lochboisdale, Scotland, 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....

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....

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....

Ronas Hill Chambered Cairn

North Roe, Scotland, United Kingdom

On the summit of Shetland's highest hill, Neolithic builders placed a chambered cairn for their dead....

Rosslyn

Roslin, Scotland, 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...

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....

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....

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...

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'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 Brynach’s Church

Nevern, Wales, United Kingdom

In a quiet Pembrokeshire churchyard, an avenue of ancient yews leads to the finest Celtic cross in Wales....

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 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 David’s Cathedral

St Davids, Wales, 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....

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 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....

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....