Struell Wells and Bath Houses
Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Christianity
Historic holy-well complex associated with St Patrick and a long pilgrimage and healing tradition.
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Saul Church
Saul, Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Christianity
Pilgrimage church traditionally regarded as the place where St Patrick began his Irish mission.
Down Cathedral
Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Christianity
Historic cathedral beside the traditional burial place of St Patrick and a major destination on the Saint Patrick pilgrimage landscape.
St Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Armagh
Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Christianity
Roman Catholic primatial cathedral of Armagh, forming with the Church of Ireland cathedral a nationally important Patrician sacred landscape.
St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh
Armagh, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Christianity
Primatial Church of Ireland cathedral on the hill traditionally associated with St Patrick’s principal church at Armagh.
St Ninian’s Cave
Physgill, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom Christianity
Coastal cave with early medieval Christian carvings and a continuing pilgrimage tradition associated with St Ninian.
Rosslyn Chapel
Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom Christianity
Internationally famous late medieval chapel renowned for exceptionally rich stone carving and continuing Christian worship.
Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre
Eskdalemuir, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, United Kingdom Buddhism
Founded in 1967 as the first Tibetan Buddhist centre in the West and now a major international monastery and teaching centre.
Carfin Grotto
Carfin, Motherwell, North Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom Christianity
Scotland’s national Marian shrine, created as a Lourdes grotto and visited by pilgrims from across Scotland and abroad.
Dunfermline Abbey
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom Christianity
Royal abbey and mausoleum containing the burial traditions of St Margaret, Robert the Bruce and other Scottish monarchs.
Glasgow Cathedral
Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom Christianity
Exceptional surviving medieval Scottish cathedral built around the tomb and pilgrimage shrine of St Mungo.
St Giles’ Cathedral
Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Christianity
The High Kirk of Edinburgh and a nationally significant centre of the Scottish Reformation and Presbyterian history.