Physical form
Christian worship place
518 sacred places classified as christian worship place in Pilgrim Map. This form sits within built sacred place.
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...
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...
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....
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....
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 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....
Durham Cathedral
Durham, England, United Kingdom
For 120 years, monks fleeing Vikings carried the body of St. Cuthbert across northern England....
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....
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...
Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester, England, United Kingdom
When King Edward II was murdered at Berkeley Castle in 1327, other abbeys refused his body....
Holywell
Cymru / Wales, United Kingdom
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Lincoln Cathedral
Lincoln, England, United Kingdom
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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....
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 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 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 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 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
Glastonbury, England, United Kingdom
On Glastonbury's High Street stands a church where prayers have risen for eight centuries. St....
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 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 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....
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 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. 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. 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, Haddington, Scotland
Haddington, Scotland, United Kingdom
Known as the Lamp of Lothian, St Mary's has held worship since the twelfth century....
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....
Winchester Cathedral
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
Winchester Cathedral has stood at the spiritual heart of England for over 1,300 years....
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....