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Christianity sacred sites in United Kingdom
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St Nicholas Church, Chawton
Chawton, England, 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 Nicholas Church, Thanington
Thanington, England, 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 Non’s Chapel and Well
St Davids, Wales, 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 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 & St Paul's Church, Aylesford
Aylesford, England, 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....
St Peter & St Paul's Church, Charing
Charing, England, 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 Peter's Church, Ovington
Ovington, England, 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....
St Peter's Church, Ropley
Ropley, England, 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 Swithun's Church
Headbourne Worthy, England, 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. 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. 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...
St. Beuno shrine and well, Clynnog Fawr, Wales
Clynnog Fawr, Wales, 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. Beuno’s Church and Well, Clynnog Fawr, Wales
Clynnog Fawr, Wales, 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, Wales, 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...
St. Davids and St. Non's, Wales
St Davids, Wales, United Kingdom
Two pilgrimages to St Davids equaled one to Rome, declared the medieval popes, recognizing what Welsh Christians already knew....
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....
St. Fillan’s Cave, Pittenweem, Scotland
Pittenweem, 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. 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. Mary’s Church, Dolgellau
Dolgellau, Wales, 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. Mary’s Church, Haddington, Scotland
Haddington, Scotland, United Kingdom
Known as the Lamp of Lothian, St Mary's has held worship since the twelfth century....
St. Michael's Mount
Marazion, England, 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. 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....
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....
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....
Stanydale Temple
Bixter, Scotland, United Kingdom
On a treeless hillside in western Shetland, a heel-shaped stone structure stands open to the sky....
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....
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....
The Bishop's Palace, Halling
Halling, England, United Kingdom
The Bishop's Palace at Halling is a fragmentary medieval ruin — a single standing wall of a Great Hall once at the heart of episcopal Kent — set in the churchyard of an...
The Friars, Aylesford Priory
Aylesford, England, United Kingdom
Founded in 1242 on the banks of the Medway, Aylesford Priory is the cradle of the English Carmelite Order and home to the relic of St Simon Stock....
The Street of the Dead
Iona, Scotland, 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...
Underhoull Longhouse
Baltasound, Scotland, 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....
Wearyall Hill & Holy Thorn
Glastonbury, England, United Kingdom
An open hilltop rises above Glastonbury, marking where—according to legend—Joseph of Arimathea first set foot in Britain....
Wells Cathedral
Wells, England, United Kingdom
Wells Cathedral lifts its scissor arches above springs that were sacred before Christianity reached Britain....
Winchester Buttercross
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
The Buttercross is a 15th-century devotional cross at the heart of Winchester High Street, bearing carved figures of saints including St Swithun....
Winchester Cathedral
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
Winchester Cathedral has stood at the spiritual heart of England for over 1,300 years....
Winchester Cathedral
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
At 558 feet, Winchester Cathedral stretches further than any medieval church in the world....
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....
Wrotham
Wrotham, England, 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....
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