Building or ruin · Medieval
St Davids Bishop's Palace
Pembrokeshire
A fourteenth-century episcopal palace of extraordinary ambition, ruined not by war but by a bishop who sold the lead off its roof in 1536.
- Near St Davids
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Denis Church, East Hatley
Cambridgeshire
A redundant medieval church whose consecrated churchyard now doubles as a legally protected nature reserve, rescued from decay by a charity built s…
- Near East Hatley
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Denys Priory
Hampshire
A royal foundation of Henry I whose pilgrimage chapel once drew Henry VIII in person now survives as a garden wall and re-sited archway in a Southa…
- Near Southampton
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
St Donat's Castle
Vale of Glamorgan
A castle on cliffs above the Bristol Channel, on ground held since well before the Romans came.
- Near St Donats
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Edith's Church, Shocklach
Cheshire
The carved south entrance is the church's defining survival: three Norman orders, chevron and cable moulding, and weathered corbel heads (carved st…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Edward the Confessor's Church, Leek
Staffordshire
A church whose churchyard shows a double sunset at midsummer: an alignment calculated to predate Christianity in Britain.
- Near Leek
- Easy path
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Fortified place · Medieval
St Fagans Castle
Cardiff
An Elizabethan mansion raised inside the surviving D-shaped wall of a medieval castle, later given whole to the nation with its gardens and collect…
- Near St Fagans
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Fillan's Cave and Well, Pittenweem
Fife
St Fillan’s Cave is the sacred core of Pittenweem’s ‘place of the caves’ identity, linking an early Christian site, an Augustinian monastery and th…
- Near St Andrews
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Frideswide's Priory
Oxfordshire
A 7th-century royal nunnery, sacked in the St Brice's Day massacre and rebuilt three times over, still stands today as Oxford's cathedral and an Ox…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Giles' Cathedral
City of Edinburgh
Its 1637 prayer-book riot lit the fuse for the National Covenant and the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, earning St Giles' the title 'the Mother Church…
- Near Edinburgh
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Govan's Chapel
Pembrokeshire
A chapel of twenty feet by twelve built into the side of a limestone cliff at St Govan's Head.
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Gwenfaen's Well
Isle of Anglesey
A rare three-chambered drystone well house survives almost intact, still visited for a legend of curing mental illness with an offering of white qu…
- Near Bangor
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate
City of London
A double church built for nuns and parishioners side by side, it now holds more monuments than anywhere in London bar Westminster Abbey, and has co…
- Near London
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Illtyd's Church, Llantwit Major
Vale of Glamorgan
A church complex on the site of what has been called the oldest college in the United Kingdom.
- Near Llantwit Major
- Easy path
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Crossing or structure · Medieval
St Ives Bridge
Cambridgeshire
A working medieval road bridge that still carries a consecrated chapel on one of its piers: a combination almost unique in England.
- Near St Ives
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St James' Chapel, Lindsey
Suffolk
Dissolved in 1545 and granted to Thomas Turner, who turned it into a barn. That is the reason a thirteenth-century chapel is still standing.
- Near Lindsey
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Sacred place · Medieval
St James' Church, Stirchley
Shropshire
A twelfth-century church encased in brick, extended for ironworkers in 1838, and holding a Norman chancel arch: at the eastern end, by the altar: t…
- Near Stirchley
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St James' Priory, Bristol
Bristol
For seven centuries its churchyard hosted Bristol's greatest fair: bear-baiting, Punch and Judy, and possibly Shakespeare's own company on the bill.
- Near Bristol
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St John the Baptist's Church, Chester
Cheshire
In 973 six tributary kings are said to have rowed King Edgar up the Dee to hold court here: a church that was Chester's cathedral before it was eve…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St John the Baptist's Church, Stanwick
North Yorkshire
A medieval parish church stands inside the ramparts of an Iron Age (roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest) oppidum, its churchyard holding a 9th-…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St John's Abbey, Colchester
Essex
St John’s Abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot) was a major Benedictine institution built from Roman Colchester’s fabric, whose gatehouse and redi…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St John's Jerusalem
Kent
Its county historian owner spent so lavishly on the house that he went bankrupt and served five years in prison, a very personal footnote to a site…
- Near Dartford
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Sacred place · Medieval
St John's Priory, Kilkenny
County Kilkenny
Weathered tombs sit beside a working chapel where Kilkenny's Michael Street meets John Street, marking the former religious house's layered fabric.
- Near Kilkenny
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St John's, Monmouth
Monmouthshire
St John’s pairs an eighteenth-century Monmouth villa with a separately protected Coalbrookdale verandah and formal walled garden, a rare survival b…
- Near Monmouth
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Kenneth's Chapel
Argyll and Bute
Eight medieval cross slabs and a sixteenth-century high cross survive inside its walls, set within an island cemetery still used for burials today.
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Kentigern's Church, Aspatria
Cumbria
Behind its Victorian rebuild the church keeps a working holy well, a genuine Anglo-Saxon hogback tomb, and pre-Norman crosses carved with a fifth-c…
- Near Carlisle
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Kentigern's Church, Caldbeck
Cumbria
A working parish church built over a 6th-century predecessor, still paired with the holy well where the earliest Christians of Caldbeck were baptised.
- Near Carlisle
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Lawrence's Church, Over Peover
Cheshire
Its surviving medieval and seventeenth-century family chapels contain Mainwaring monuments, while a plaque and flag record General Patton's staff w…
- Near Over Peover
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Leonard's Priory, Stamford
Lincolnshire
St Leonard’s Priory: a monastery headed by a prior: preserves a rare Grade I church front and arcade in the heavy round-arched style of the elevent…
- Easy path
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Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
St Lythans burial chamber
Vale of Glamorgan
A single-chamber megalithic dolmen of about 4000 BC, once covered by a long earthen mound.
- Near St Lythans
- Some walking
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Machar's Cathedral
Aberdeen City
A working Church of Scotland kirk that still keeps William Wallace's quartered remains in its walls and a ceiling of 48 royal and episcopal coats o…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall
Orkney Islands
The oldest cathedral in Scotland, now a Church of Scotland parish church in Kirkwall.
- Near Kirkwall
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Margaret's Convent, Hertfordshire
Hertfordshire
A Benedictine house so poor it needed royal land grants to survive, it left behind only a lane name, a farm name and a district still called St Mar…
- Near St Albans
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Martin's Chapel, Chisbury
Wiltshire
For three centuries the tithes from this small chapel supported a priory, a monastery headed by a prior, forty miles away in Southampton, even afte…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Martin's Church, Cwmyoy
Monmouthshire
A medieval parish church so distorted by ground movement that its tower, nave (the main western space where the congregation stood) and chancel (th…
- Near Abergavenny
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
St Martin's Church, Waithe
Lincolnshire
A working Anglo-Saxon tower still stands at the centre of a church rescued from vandalism and bat guano and restored at a cost of nearly £350,000.
- Near Waithe
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Pictish & early medieval
St Martin's Church, Wareham
Dorset
St Martin’s Church is Dorset’s most complete Anglo-Saxon church, preserving early architecture, rare medieval wall paintings and later memorials wi…
- Near Wareham
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary Abbots
Greater London
St Mary Abbots brings a medieval Abingdon Abbey foundation into the centre of modern Kensington, crowned by London’s tallest church spire and layer…
- Near Kensington
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary and St Martin's Church, Blyth
Nottinghamshire
Blyth preserves rare Norman fabric from a French-connected Benedictine priory whose church remained in parish use after its 1536 closure.
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Mary le Port Church, Bristol
Bristol
A single medieval tower stands alone in a modern park, the only fragment left after a night of bombing reduced the rest of the church to rubble.
- Near Bristol
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary Magdalene Priory, Lincoln
Lincolnshire
A tiny Benedictine outpost of York's St Mary's Abbey (a self-governing monastery, its head an abbot) ended up guarding a sacred spring and a stretc…
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
St Mary the Virgin Church, Caerau, Cardiff
Cardiff
A medieval church built directly on the ramparts of an Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) hillfort (an upland enclosur…
- Near Caerau
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary the Virgin, Ivinghoe
Buckinghamshire
Rebuilt after rebels burned the church and town in 1234, it kept its rose windows and grew a tie-beam roof carved with angels and apostles.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Abbey ruins, Bardsey Island
Gwynedd
A single ruined tower on a remote Welsh island once drew a king and, by tradition, held the graves of some 20,000 saints.
- Near Bangor
- Rough ground
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Abbey, Kenilworth
Warwickshire
The abbot's pension at the surrender was £100; his prior got £8. Most of the ruins were deliberately reburied in 1967 to protect them.
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Abbey, York
North Yorkshire
One of its own monks wrote the fullest surviving eyewitness account of a medieval parliament and the 1381 Peasants' Revolt, later folded into a chr…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Acton
Cheshire
Its tower, raised around 1180, is the oldest in Cheshire, and its south aisle holds carved Romanesque (the round-arched style that came before Goth…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Astbury
Cheshire
Astbury's church is unusually broad at the west end, with a detached tower and a south porch whose upper room may have served as a priest's treasury.
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Bruera
Cheshire
St Mary's Church, Bruera preserves Norman fabric within a much-altered rural church, alongside a scheduled churchyard sundial made from the remains…
- Near Bruera
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Derwen
Denbighshire
A carved timber rood screen, the carved screen dividing the main body of a church from the space around the altar, has kept its loft intact, one of…
- Near Denbigh
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Eastwell
Kent
St Mary’s, Eastwell is a protected church ruin whose 15th-century tower and 19th-century mortuary chapel survive after the nave (the main body of a…
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Pateley Bridge
North Yorkshire
St Mary’s Church preserves a roofless parish ruin on Pateley Bridge’s older high-ground settlement site, beside the town’s later shift of worship c…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Reculver
Kent
Demolished by gunpowder in 1809 on the casting vote of its own vicar, its twin towers survived only because Trinity House recognised their value as…
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Church, Temple Balsall
West Midlands
A parish church traditionally reckoned the mother church of the Knights Templar and Hospitaller in England, its altar window still picturing knight…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's College, Oxford
Oxfordshire
A college founded in 1435 by Thomas Holden and his wife Elizabeth for the Augustinian order.
- Near Oxford
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Mary's Guildhall, Lincoln
Lincolnshire
St Mary’s Guildhall is a palatial Romanesque (the heavy round-arched architecture of the eleventh and twelfth centuries) domestic complex in Lincol…
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mary's Priory and Cathedral
West Midlands
The only English cathedral pulled down at the Reformation: the break with Rome that shut the religious houses in the 1530s: its buried west front a…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Michael's Church, Llanfihangel Ysgeifiog
Isle of Anglesey
Old St Michael’s is a rare unrestored late-medieval Anglesey church ruin, retaining chancel (the eastern end of the church, holding the altar) and…
- Near Gaerwen
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Michael's Church, Muncaster
Cumbria
A scheduled Anglo-Saxon high cross stands in the churchyard beside a Grade I church whose windows carry a rare medieval Doom scene and Victorian gl…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Michael's Church, Trelawnyd
Flintshire
A scheduled 14th-century preaching cross, carved with the Crucifixion, still stands in a churchyard rebuilt almost entirely within one decade of Vi…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Michael's Church, Whittington
Lancashire
A Victorian church tower rises from the earthworks of a vanished Norman castle, its sundial still standing on the summit of the original great eart…
- Near Lancaster
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Michael's Leper Hospital
Warwickshire
The last leper hospital left standing in England, its chapel and fifteenth-century Master's House surviving in scrubland north of Warwick.
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Moluag's Cathedral, Lismore
Argyll and Bute
The parish church swallowed a medieval cathedral whole in 1749, still wearing its doorways, piscina: the basin near an altar for rinsing communion…
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Monans Windmill and Salt Pans
Fife
One of the few surviving structures from the East Neuk's vanished salt-panning industry, and today the site of a modern revival of the same craft n…
- Near St Andrews
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mullin's Monastic Site
County Carlow
St Mullin’s is an early medieval monastery: roughly AD 400–1100, between the Romans and the Normans: at a river confluence associated with Saint Mo…
- Near St Mullins
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mungo's Church, Bromfield
Cumbria
A sandstone wellhead raised in 1878 still covers a spring beside a Norman-era church: two separately listed structures sharing one saint's name and…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Myllin's Well
Powys
A holy well where the saint is said to have been the first in Britain to baptise by full immersion: and where wishes were tied to rags rotting on t…
- Near Llanfyllin
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Neots Priory
Cambridgeshire
A Cornish saint's bones, carried east to draw pilgrims, gave this Cambridgeshire town its name and its priory, a monastery headed by a prior rather…
- Near St Neots
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Nicholas Chapel, Chester
Cheshire
St Nicholas's Chapel survives as a rare record of changing urban use: medieval worship gave way to trade, theatre, concerts, cinema and a present-d…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Roman
St Nicholas Church, Leicester
Leicestershire
Leicester's oldest continually used building, its Anglo-Saxon nave (the main western space where the congregation stood) built almost entirely from…
- Near Leicester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Nicholas' Priory, Exeter
Devon
St Nicholas’ Priory: a monastic house under a prior rather than an abbot: preserves rare domestic ranges of a Benedictine monastery in Exeter, late…
- Near Exeter
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Olave's Priory
Norfolk
St Olave’s Priory, a monastery run by a prior, is a surviving Augustinian Black Canons site on the Waveney, linking a medieval ferry, annual fair a…
- Near St Olaves
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Oswald's Church, Dean
Cumbria
A working parish church that has grown by addition for eight centuries: Norman nave (the main body of a church, where the congregation gathers), me…
- Near Carlisle
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Oswald's Church, Ravenstonedale
Cumbria
A Georgian church built almost entirely of box pews arranged like a college chapel, standing over the ruined covered walkway of a vanished Gilberti…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Oswald's Church, Winwick
Cheshire
St Oswald's Church, Winwick is a Grade I listed church whose medieval fabric, Anglo-Saxon cross fragment and later rebuilding preserve almost a mil…
- Near Winwick
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Oswald's Priory, Gloucester
Gloucestershire
One of only two English minsters known to be an exact copy of the Old Minster at Winchester, and the burial place of the Mercian rulers who founded…
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Osyth's Priory
Essex
St Osyth’s Priory: a monastery headed by a prior: is one of Essex’s most substantial monastic estates, where Augustinian fabric, Tudor rebuilding a…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr
Ceredigion
Mid-Wales's largest medieval church, rooted in an early Christian learning centre whose history moves between tradition, monastic power and parish…
- Near Llanbadarn Fawr
- Easy path
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Pancras, Soper Lane
City of London
A wealthy City parish rebuilt its small church twice in the 1620s, only for the Great Fire to erase it entirely in a single night four decades later.
- Near City of London
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Patrick's Chapel, Heysham
Lancashire
The rock-cut tombs beside the ruin later reached a far wider audience than archaeology ever could, appearing on the cover of a Black Sabbath album,…
- Near Heysham
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Patrick's Island
County Dublin
In 1148 the island hosted a synod of fifteen bishops and over two hundred priests convened to reform the Irish church, one of the larger such gathe…
- Near Skerries
- Rough ground
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Building or ruin · Medieval
St Peter's Cave, Chepstow
Monmouthshire
Charcoal found deep inside may be the earliest trace of human habitation anywhere in the lower Wye valley, hidden in a cave most visitors will neve…
- Near Abergavenny
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Peter's Church, Dixton
Monmouthshire
St Peter’s, Dixton, preserves a church site recorded by about 735, medieval fabric and a flood-prone Wye setting, while remaining a Church of Engla…
- Near Monmouth
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Pictish & early medieval
St Peter's Church, Heysham
Lancashire
A blocked Anglo-Saxon doorway, an early Norman chancel arch and a carved Viking hogback stone sit inside one working parish church: three distinct…
- Near Lancaster
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Roman
St Peter's Church, Wickham Bishops
Essex
St Peter’s is an eleventh-century redundant church rescued from demolition, where layered materials, medieval wall patterns and contemporary staine…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Queran's Well
Dumfries and Galloway
St Queran’s Well preserves a continuing Scottish holy-well tradition, where coins, pins and ribbons have been offered from at least the nineteenth…
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Fortified place · Medieval
St Quintins Castle
Vale of Glamorgan
A stone keep of the late twelfth century survives inside the later gatehouse: a building swallowed by the one that replaced it.
- Near Cowbridge
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Radegund's Priory, Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
A 12th-century nunnery whose chapel, cloister and hall survive intact inside Jesus College: one of the few places in Cambridge where the medieval r…
- Near Cambridge
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Saeran's Church, Llanynys
Denbighshire
Its 15th-century St Christopher mural, hidden under plaster until 1967, is reckoned the finest surviving medieval wall painting in north Wales.
- Near Denbigh
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Theobald's Church, Great Hautbois
Norfolk
St Theobald’s is a Grade II* round-tower church whose medieval shrine attracted pilgrims, shaping later side arms, aisles and hospital provision at…
- Near Great Hautbois
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Dominic's Holy Well
Cornwall
The name St Dominic’s Well in Truro masks an important location puzzle: the visible spring is likely not the historic friary (a community of friars…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St George's Priory, Thetford
Norfolk
St George’s Priory, a monastery run by a prior, reveals a rare institutional reversal: a poor Benedictine house became a nunnery under Bury St Edmu…
- Near Thetford
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Mawgan Monastery
Cornwall
St Mawgan Monastery preserves the deep religious continuity of Lanherne, from a sixth-century Celtic foundation through medieval manor life to succ…
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Monica's Priory, Spetisbury
Dorset
St Monica’s Priory, a monastery run by a prior, tells a compact story of nineteenth- and twentieth-century religious exile, as four different Catho…
- Near Spetisbury
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Prehistoric
St Ninian's Isle
Shetland Islands
St Ninian's Isle sits off the south-western coast of Shetland Mainland, joined to it by a 500-metre tombolo, the largest in the United Kingdom. Loc…
- Easy path
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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
St Orland's Stone
Angus
St Orland’s in-situ cross-slab joins a richly interlaced Christian cross to symbols, hunters, a boat and beasts, preserving a remarkably complex pr…
- Near Glamis
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Saviour's Priory, Dublin
County Dublin
St Saviour's Priory: a monastery headed by a prior rather than an abbot: continues Dublin's Dominican tradition from a 1224 foundation through a ni…
- Near Dublin
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St Trinian's Church
Isle of Man
St Trinian’s is a roofless Manx keeill on an ancient Christian site, where a 7th-century cross, medieval barony and Whithorn Priory connection meet…
- Easy path
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