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Christianity sacred sites in United Kingdom
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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...
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
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.
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. 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.
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...
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....
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...
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....
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....
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....
Our Lady of Czestochowa (Camden Town)
London, England, United Kingdom
Black Madonna shrine known for Belgian connection, historic devotion from Halle, England
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...
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