United Kingdom

Lullingstone Roman Villa

Eynsford, England, United Kingdom

In the Darent Valley of Kent, the remains of a Roman farmhouse preserve what is believed to be the earliest purpose-built Christian chapel in the British Isles....

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...

Machrie Moor Stone Circles

Machrie, Scotland, United Kingdom

On the western coast of the Isle of Arran, a walk of a mile and a half across open moorland brings you to six stone circles arranged on a broad, flat expanse beneath the...

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....

Madron Holy Well

Madron, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Madron’s holy well is a small stone-lined spring in wet woodland near the village.

Maeshowe Chambered Cairn

Stenness, Scotland, United Kingdom

On Mainland Orkney, a grass-covered mound rises seven metres above a surrounding ditch....

Maghera Church and Round Tower

Newcastle, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

Maghera Church and Round Tower is a nationally or regionally important prehistoric place in Northern Ireland....

Manchester Cathedral

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Manchester Cathedral belongs among the significant cathedral places of England. The sacred frame at Manchester Cathedral comes from Anglican or historic Western Christian...

Marlborough Mound

Marlborough, England, United Kingdom

In the grounds of Marlborough College stands a 19-meter mound that most visitors to Wiltshire never see....

Maxton Kirk (Maxton Parish Church)

Maxton, Maxton, Scottish Borders, United Kingdom

Maxton Kirk (Maxton Parish Church) is treated here as the exact whole-site entity in Maxton, Maxton, Scottish Borders, Scotland, not as a route label or nearby point of...

Melrose Abbey

Melrose, Scotland, United Kingdom

Melrose Abbey belongs among the significant monastic places of Scotland. The sacred frame at Melrose Abbey comes from Christian monastic tradition....

Mên-an-Tol

Morvah, England, United Kingdom

On the West Penwith moor, three stones stand against the sky—but it is the middle stone that draws seekers from around the world....

Merry Maidens Stone Circle

Lamorna, England, United Kingdom

Rising from Cornish farmland near Land's End, the Merry Maidens stands as one of Britain's most complete Bronze Age stone circles....

Midhowe Broch

Rousay, Scotland, United Kingdom

On the western coast of Rousay, where two steep gullies cut into the shoreline, a broch stands within its own small settlement....

Midhowe Chambered Cairn

Rousay, Scotland, United Kingdom

On the western shore of Rousay, sheltered beneath a modern protective roof, lies the largest stalled cairn in Orkney....

Mor Stein

Shapinsay, Scotland, United Kingdom

On the southeastern shore of Shapinsay, one of the inner Orkney Islands, a single standing stone rises roughly ten feet from the turf....

Moss Farm Road Stone Circle

Machrie, Scotland, United Kingdom

On the western shore of the Isle of Arran, where a farm track leads into the ancient ceremonial moorland of Machrie, seven stones still stand in a broken ring....

Mother Shipton’s Cave, Knaresborough, England

Knaresborough, England, United Kingdom

At the edge of Knaresborough, where the River Nidd carves through ancient limestone, a cave opens into legend....

Mount Grace Priory

Northallerton, England, United Kingdom

Mount Grace Priory is a nationally or regionally important monastic place in England. Mount Grace Priory is interpreted here through Christian monastic tradition....

Mount Schiehallion, Scotland

Aberfeldy, Scotland, United Kingdom

Rising like a sentinel at the heart of Scotland, Schiehallion carries one of the most evocative names in Gaelic geography: Sidh Chailleann, the Fairy Hill of the...

Mt. Beinn-na-Greine, Portree, Scotland

Portree, Scotland, United Kingdom

On the Isle of Skye, a modest peak carries an ancient name: Beinn na Greine, Mountain of the Sun....

Munlochy Clootie Well

Munlochy, Scotland, United Kingdom

Munlochy’s Clootie Well is a woodland spring on the Black Isle.

Neath Abbey

Neath, Wales, United Kingdom

Neath Abbey stands in Wales as a major monastic site. At Neath Abbey, Christian monastic tradition provides the public sacred context....

Ness of Brodgar

Stenness, Scotland, United Kingdom

On the narrow isthmus between two lochs on Mainland Orkney, the Ness of Brodgar lies at the centre of a Neolithic world....

Nether Largie Mid Cairn

Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom

Nether Largie Mid Cairn stands at the heart of Kilmartin Glen's linear cemetery, a two-kilometer procession of burial monuments stretching across the floor of one of...

Nether Largie North Cairn

Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom

Nether Largie North Cairn stands second in a line of five burial monuments stretching through Kilmartin Glen in Argyll, Scotland....

Nether Largie South Cairn

Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom

In the heart of Kilmartin Glen, Nether Largie South Cairn has held its ground for more than five thousand years....

Nether Largie standing stones, Argyll, Scotland

Kilmartin, Scotland, United Kingdom

Five massive stones stand in an X-shaped pattern at the heart of Kilmartin Glen, mainland Scotland's richest prehistoric landscape....

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...

Newcastle Cathedral

Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Newcastle Cathedral stands in England as a major cathedral site. At Newcastle Cathedral, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition provides the public sacred...

Nine Ladies Stone Circle

Stanton in Peak, England, United Kingdom

Nine Ladies is an Early Bronze Age stone circle on Stanton Moor in Derbyshire, set within a much wider prehistoric landscape of barrows, cairns, and standing stones....

Nine Maidens stone ring, Cornwall

St. Columb Major, England, United Kingdom

On the high moorland of West Penwith, where Atlantic winds sweep across granite and gorse, the Nine Maidens stand in their ancient circle....

Nine Stones Close Stone Circle, Youlgreave

Derbyshire Dales, England, United Kingdom

Four weathered stones stand sentinel on Harthill Moor, remnants of a Bronze Age circle that once framed the setting Moon between the twin pillars of Robin Hood's Stride....

Norwich Cathedral

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Norwich Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in England....

Nottingham Cathedral

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Nottingham Cathedral is a nationally or regionally important cathedral place in England. Nottingham Cathedral is interpreted here through Roman Catholic Christianity....

Old Scatness Broch and Iron Age Village

Virkie, Scotland, United Kingdom

In 1975, construction workers building a road to Sumburgh Airport cut through what appeared to be a natural grassy mound at the southern tip of Mainland Shetland....

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...

Ousdale Broch

Helmsdale, Scotland, United Kingdom

In a sheltered valley where the Ousdale Burn cuts toward the sea, between the villages of Helmsdale and Berriedale on the Caithness-Sutherland border, a broch stands that...

Paisley Abbey

Paisley, Scotland, United Kingdom

Paisley Abbey stands in Scotland as a major living Christian site. At Paisley Abbey, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition provides the public sacred context....

Penrhos Feiliw standing stones

Holyhead, Wales, United Kingdom

On Holy Island, at the western edge of Anglesey, two standing stones rise in near-identical form....

Pentre Ifan Dolmen

Nevern, Wales, United Kingdom

On a hillside in west Wales, a sixteen-ton capstone floats on three slender uprights....

Peterborough Cathedral

Peterborough, England, United Kingdom

Peterborough Cathedral stands in England as a major cathedral site. At Peterborough Cathedral, Anglican or historic Western Christian tradition provides the public sacred...

Pilgrims Rest Statue

Lenham, England, United Kingdom

Brother Percival is a life-sized wooden sculpture of a resting monk, installed in 2007 on the Pilgrim's Way between Harrietsham and Lenham in Kent....