Shrine Church of Saint Melangell
Pennant Melangell, Llangynog, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom Christianity
Remote Welsh shrine preserving the reconstructed medieval shrine of St Melangell and a long pilgrimage tradition.
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St Davids Cathedral
St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales, United Kingdom Christianity
National shrine of St David and one of Wales’s foremost Christian pilgrimage destinations.
St Winefride’s Well and Chapel
Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, United Kingdom Christianity
One of Britain’s best-known holy wells, with a continuous pilgrimage and healing tradition associated with St Winefride.
Rievaulx Abbey
Rievaulx, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Christianity
One of England’s great Cistercian monasteries, influential in medieval spirituality under Abbot Aelred of Rievaulx.
Lindisfarne Priory
Holy Island, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom Christianity
Ruined priory on Holy Island, one of Britain’s most important early Christian and pilgrimage sites.
Fountains Abbey
Fountains, Ripon, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom Christianity
One of Britain’s most important Cistercian ruins and the monastic core of the Studley Royal UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Glastonbury Abbey
Glastonbury, Somerset, England, United Kingdom Christianity
Major English monastic and pilgrimage heritage site surrounded by long-standing traditions concerning early Christianity and Joseph of Arimathea.
Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
Walsingham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom Christianity
International Anglican Marian shrine reviving one of medieval England’s most famous pilgrimage traditions.
Catholic National Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady, Walsingham
Houghton St Giles, Walsingham, Norfolk, England, United Kingdom Christianity
National Catholic Marian shrine at Walsingham centred on the medieval Slipper Chapel.
St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury
Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom Christianity
Ruined monastery founded soon after Augustine’s mission and a key component of Canterbury’s World Heritage Site.
Liverpool Cathedral
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom Christianity
Britain’s largest cathedral and a major national landmark of twentieth-century Anglican architecture.
St Martin’s Church, Canterbury
Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom Christianity
Ancient Canterbury church associated with Queen Bertha and St Augustine, described by Canterbury Cathedral as the oldest church in continuous use in…