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Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Angus
Two plain sandstone cottages beside an Angus church hold 38 carved Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD…
Sacred place · Medieval
Flintshire
One of Britain's very few sacred sites to keep an unbroken pilgrimage tradition straight through the Reformation (the break with Rome that shut the…
Sacred place · Medieval
Shropshire
A holy well and wellhouse in the hamlet of Woolston, listed Grade II*.
Sacred place · Medieval
County Tipperary
A Dominican community that hosted the order's national chapter meetings three times over half a century, and clung on quietly for three hundred yea…
Sacred place · Medieval
County Meath
Granted after the Battle of the Boyne to one of King William's men, who by one account lasted a single night there before riding away at dawn.
Sacred place · Medieval
County Dublin
St Mary's Abbey (a monastery headed by an abbot) was a powerful medieval Dublin monastery whose buried chapter house preserves a trace of its lost…
Sacred place · Medieval
County Meath
The bell tower's north wall still carries the printed outline of the round tower it replaced: early medieval (roughly AD 400–1100, between the Roma…
Sacred place · Medieval
County Meath
St Mary’s monastery became a pilgrimage centre around a Marian statue before its public burning in 1538, joining sacred survival, suppression and c…
Sacred place · Medieval
Cheshire
St Plegmund's Well is a scheduled Cheshire holy well whose documentary history, stone-lined structure and continuing well-dressing tradition preser…
Sacred place · Medieval
Kent
St Radegund’s Abbey (a self-governing monastery, its head an abbot) traces a Premonstratensian foundation from Prémontré through its service near D…
Fortified place · Medieval
Staffordshire
A castle rediscovered in the 1790s by workmen underpinning its last standing wall: and rebuilt on its own buried foundations.
Crossing or structure · Roman
Surrey
Five successive bridges have failed, cracked, or been demolished on this Thames crossing since Roman times, making its 1832 granite survivor the so…
Ancient place · Medieval
North Yorkshire
A working medieval village of nine taxpaying households vanished so completely that a Second World War pillbox now stands more prominent above grou…
Fortified place · Medieval
Lincolnshire
A stone-built market town where a 1333 walkout of Oxford scholars nearly founded England's third university, and where a medieval bull run ran thro…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Devon
Stanborough is an Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans came) promontory hillfort (a defended enclosure on high ground, ringed with banks an…
Sacred place · Medieval
North Yorkshire
A community of English nuns founded in exile in 1625 survived imprisonment during the French Revolution, two centuries in Worcestershire and a 2009…
Settlement · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
Roughly a hundred yards southeast of Benie Hoose, close to the cliff edge at Yoxie Geo on Whalsay's northeastern coast, a partly ruined Neolithic (…
Sacred place · Medieval
Hertfordshire
A rare English commandery that housed sisters of a crusading order alongside knights, with a fifteenth-century barn still standing on the site.
Building or ruin · Roman
West Sussex
Fifty-seven miles of Roman road running from London to Chichester, its date of construction still uncertain.
Building or ruin · Roman
Northumberland
The Stanegate, a name meaning stone road, shows how Rome linked its northern forts before Hadrian’s Wall reset the frontier.
Sacred place · Medieval
Wiltshire
A royal-favoured Cistercian house that hosted two kings and a princess, reduced by the dissolution to an empty field: its only visible trace now a…
Sacred place · Medieval
Cheshire
Stanlow Abbey preserves the scant remains of a Cistercian house repeatedly damaged by its exposed Mersey setting, whose monks moved to Whalley whil…
Fortified place · Medieval
Essex
Stansted Mountfitchet Castle is a scheduled Norman ringwork (an early castle defended by a circular bank and ditch rather than a mound) and bailey…
Building or ruin · Medieval
Essex
Stansted Mountfitchet Windmill is a restored eighteenth-century tower mill whose working sails and machinery preserve the changing technology of ru…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Somerset
Geophysics in 1997 found nine concentric rings of postholes under the Great Circle - more than four hundred pits, holding timbers up to a metre thi…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Derbyshire
Beyond the famous Nine Ladies circle, the moor carries three further Bronze Age (the period from about 2500 to 800 BC) rings, over seventy barrows…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Somerset
The fort sits on the line of the Wansdyke, and the iron tools found here are farming implements rather than weapons.
Fortified place · Iron Age
North Yorkshire
Nine kilometres of ditch and rampart enclose some 300 hectares: one of the largest fortified sites in Iron Age (from about 800 BC until the Romans…
Ancient place · Prehistoric
Shropshire
A hill carrying a stone circle, a standing stone, a ring cairn and two summit cairns: and farmed in the 1930s by a holder of the Victoria Cross.
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Nottinghamshire
Pevsner called it by far the most important pre-Conquest monument in Nottinghamshire. Its shaft is round below and square above.
Ancient place · Prehistoric
North Yorkshire
A hut floor, a wooden platform and 21 red deer skull headdresses survived 11,000 years in waterlogged peat: the fullest picture anywhere in Britain…
Fortified place · Medieval
Surrey
A Georgian folly of dressed sandstone conceals the moat and footprint of a fortified manor licensed for war in 1341: one that briefly held a captiv…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Wiltshire
Two rough sarsens and two mounded corners trace a rectangle set precisely over Stonehenge's inner circle: a deliberate layout, not a random survival.
Sacred place · Medieval
Somerset
An Augustinian house of the thirteenth century near Charlton Musgrove, its buildings put to other use after 1538.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Ten large stone slabs ring a low central mound on the west coast of Lewis, the only part still standing of the stone burial mound known as Steinacl…
Fortified place · Medieval
Stirling
The castle Edward I kept bombarding after it had already surrendered, because he wanted to try out his new trebuchet.
Sacred place · Medieval
Lincolnshire
Stixwould Priory records an unusually fluid female religious house: founded by Lucy of Chester, interpreted differently as Cistercian, Gilbertine a…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Devon
Stockland Castle preserves two distinct Iron Age (from around 800 BC up to the Roman conquest) hillforts on one Devon hillside, showing how prehist…
Fortified place · Medieval
Somerset
A castle ordered destroyed by the crown twice, in 1215 and 1228, and still standing to be extended in stone in 1300.
Sacred place · Medieval
Somerset
A religious house founded around 1100 at Stogursey, with its church surviving as the parish church.
Building or ruin · Roman
Devon
Stoke Hill brings an Iron Age hillfort: an Iron Age settlement defended by banks and ditches on high ground: and a later Roman signal station into…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Somerset
One of three forts of the Iron Age, roughly 800 BC until the Roman conquest, ringing the Avon Gorge: with an innermost rampart, an encircling bank…
Fortified place · Medieval
Shropshire
A wool merchant built it to look like Edward I's Welsh castles, and it was never meant to fight. Almost nothing has changed since the 1290s.
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Highland
Its scale rivals the Ring of Brodgar, yet a fallen twin thirty metres off suggests it once anchored a deliberate sightline to the summer solstice s…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Orkney Islands
A Late Neolithic standing stone on the island of Eday.
Sacred place · Medieval
Staffordshire
A priory founded on the grave of two princes their father was said to have killed: with the story recorded in a chronicle found at the Dissolution,…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Cambridgeshire
Barely two metres above the surrounding marsh, this bank of gravel was still high enough and dry enough to be worth fortifying, fighting over, and…
Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Wiltshire
At its river end, a 2009 dig found a ring of pits: Bluestonehenge: that held no stones at all, only unanswered questions about what stood there bef…
Building or ruin · Prehistoric
Wiltshire
Radiocarbon dating shows this three-kilometre earthwork (a bank or ditch dug and heaped from the ground itself, with no masonry) was already centur…
Ancient place · Prehistoric
Wiltshire
Almost 400 scheduled monuments beyond the stones themselves: cursus (a long Neolithic (the first farming age, roughly 4000–2500 BC) earthwork (bank…
Sacred place · Medieval
Warwickshire
A Cistercian abbey turned country house, with an interior called the swan song of English baroque plasterwork: and Jane Austen among its visitors.
Sacred place · Medieval
Cambridgeshire
A modest Augustinian priory: a monastery headed by a prior rather than an abbot: whose heir, after the dissolution: Henry VIII's closure of the mon…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Somerset
A tomb of about 3500 BC with a fossil ammonite carved into its doorway: and one of the first monuments the state ever undertook to protect.
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Oxfordshire
A working Catholic recusant household hid a secret printing press behind its walls in 1581: and a prehistoric (predating the written record in Brit…
Crossing or structure · Medieval
West Sussex
A bridge over the Arun between Pulborough and Stopham, listed Grade I and scheduled as a monument besides.
Sacred place · Medieval
Lincolnshire
A ruined 11th-century Benedictine refoundation wrapped around one of England's largest Anglo-Saxon churches, carrying the tallest Saxon arches of t…
Fortified place · Medieval
Gloucestershire
A grassy mound and its silted ditch are the only remains of the small Norman ring-motte (the earthen mound a castle was raised on) that once guarde…
Fortified place · Medieval
Somerset
An early Norman castle of the eleventh century at Nether Stowey, known locally as The Mount.
Sacred place · Medieval
County Mayo
Within little more than a decade its community switched religious order twice and survived a fire, a turbulent start followed by six centuries of c…
Fortified place · Roman
Perth and Kinross
One of the chain of forts along the Gask Ridge, and the name survives in three farms and a mill.
Fortified place · Medieval
County Waterford
A working medieval river-stronghold turned into an 1830s Gothic country house, with a Spanish murder-hole legend still clinging to its ruined prede…
Sacred place · Medieval
Berkshire
A priory: a monastery headed by a prior rather than an abbot: owned outright by a Norman abbey, a monastic house under the rule of an abbot, for ov…
Sacred place · Medieval
Greater London
Stratford Langthorne Abbey was one of England’s largest Cistercian houses, shaping mills, bridges and marshland around West Ham before its building…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Angus
Carved with the Pictish beast and the crescent and V-rod, the stone was recycled as ordinary wall-stone for generations before Dundee Museums rescu…
Building or ruin · Medieval
Bedfordshire
Surveyed in 1982-83 as "one of the most exciting areas" found near Biggleswade, its earthworks preserve a lost manor deliberately built for display…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Aberdeenshire
Destroyed twice and rebuilt twice, Strichen is less a fixed ancient monument than a 250-year argument about where its stones truly belong.
Building or ruin · Roman
Derbyshire
Strutt’s Park matters because fragmentary archaeology beneath Derby’s streets documents a brief Roman frontier post at the ancient crossing later s…
Sacred place · Medieval
Oxfordshire
A medieval nunnery reborn as a country house that hosted C. S. Lewis's Sunday pint and stood in on screen for Thomas More's Chelsea home.
Sacred place · Medieval
Warwickshire
An Augustinian priory: a monastic house under a prior rather than an abbot: moved here from Worcestershire, burial place of three generations of Ca…
Fortified place · Prehistoric
Dorset
Sturminster Newton Castle uniquely combines an Iron Age, the centuries before Rome arrived, promontory fort, a defensible enclosure on a projecting…
Sacred place · Medieval
Derbyshire
Its 1338 accounts survive in such detail that a reader can see exactly how much wheat, barley and meat a small crusading order's guesthouse consume…
Fortified place · Medieval
Gloucestershire
The only privately owned castle in the world with a queen of England buried in its grounds: Catherine Parr, Henry VIII's last wife, lies in the cha…
Carved stone · Pictish & early medieval
Moray
At 6.5 metres tall it is the largest surviving Pictish (of the Picts, the people of northern and eastern Scotland from about AD 300 to 900) cross-s…
Building or ruin · Roman
Greater London
Sulloniacis is a debated Roman stopping-place on Watling Street, where Brockley Hill’s kilns and workshops reveal major production but not a conclu…
Crossing or structure · Medieval
County Durham
A Grade I listed medieval crossing whose four sandstone arches once carried the Great North Road, now bypassed and reduced to footpath and estate t…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Aberdeenshire
A cup-marked recumbent stone facing a specific hill has drawn five generations of archaeoastronomers to this circle, from Norman Lockyer to Clive R…
Building or ruin · Medieval
North Yorkshire
Its flue once carried poisonous lead fumes some 745 metres to a hillside chimney: an unusually ambitious piece of industrial engineering for a smal…
Fortified place · Medieval
Kent
Sutton Valence Castle preserves the keep (the principal tower, built to be held even if the walls fell) of a strategically placed 12th-century Kent…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Herefordshire
Excavated skeletons here bear arrow wounds and decapitation cuts from a 1st-century Roman assault: rare direct physical evidence of an Iron Age (fr…
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
Sacred place · Medieval
Greater London
St Blaise’s Well preserves a rare Bromley pilgrimage site where a mineral spring, medieval devotional practice and the former Bishops of Rochester’…
Sacred place · Medieval
county-cork
A compact group of cathedral ruins, an oratory and a late round tower preserves more than eight centuries of religious building at Ardmore.
Sacred place · Medieval
county-kilkenny
The ruined Franciscan church at St Francis Abbey carries Kilkenny’s medieval religious history into the later industrial landscape of the Smithwick…
Sacred place · Medieval
County Waterford
St Mary's Abbey (a religious community led by an abbot), Glencairn is Ireland's only Cistercian community of nuns, founded from French refugee root…
Sacred place · Medieval
County Cork
St Mary's is a continuing Dominican church, priory: a monastery headed by a prior rather than an abbot: and novitiate on Cork's Pope's Quay.
Sacred place · Medieval
County Kildare
St Wolstan's was Ireland's first dissolved monastery, preserving the remains of a Victorine priory, a smaller monastery headed by a prior, beside t…
Sacred place · Medieval
Lincolnshire
Stainfield Priory was Lincolnshire’s only Benedictine nunnery, a small house of St Mary that sheltered up to twenty nuns until 1536.
Carved stone · Prehistoric
Devon
Stalldown Barrow is a Devon megalithic site whose long stone row contributes to the wider prehistoric (predating the written record in Britain) mon…
Sacred place · Medieval
Hertfordshire
One of the country's least-documented religious houses: a priory, a monastery run by a prior, whose existence survives only as a bare entry in the…
Building or ruin · Roman
Essex
Stane Street is a 63-kilometre Roman route still legible in Essex and Hertfordshire roads, paths and byways, linking Braughing with Roman Colchester.
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cornwall
Stannon stone circle is a large Bodmin Moor ring whose many surviving stones and nearby Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metal tools first spr…
Settlement · Prehistoric
Shetland Islands
In a field roughly 21 miles by road northwest of Lerwick, on Mainland Shetland, a large walled enclosure is all that survives of a building once ro…
Fortified place · Medieval
County Tyrone
Stewart Castle links a Plantation manor and two seventeenth-century burnings to a Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking spread) burial…
Fortified place · Medieval
Greater Manchester
Stockport Castle controlled a strategic ford where the Goyt and Tame form the Mersey, and its 1173 role in the barons’ rebellion, early decline and…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Cornwall
The Stripple Stones combine a henge (a prehistoric (predating the written record in Britain) earthwork (a bank or ditch dug and heaped from the gro…
Sacred place · Medieval
County Down
Struell Wells is a managed holy-well landscape where pre-Patrick traditions, pilgrimages, chapel remains, and flowing water have shaped devotion fo…
Sacred place · Medieval
Suffolk
Founded by the master of the royal mint at Sudbury. Its barn, one of the best medieval barns in Suffolk, burned in 2011 and was delisted in 2023.
Sacred place · Medieval
Suffolk
A stone sarcophagus turned up during demolition around 1820 and ended as a horse trough outside the Maldon Grey pub. It had been broken up by 1900.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Berkshire
Excavation of one mound recovered cremation burials placed in urns: direct physical evidence of Bronze Age (roughly 2500–800 BC, when metalworking…
Building or ruin · Roman
West Sussex
A planned Roman road, not a Romanised track: straight alignments, no steep gradients, linking villa estates along the greensand ridge.
Sacred place · Medieval
Herefordshire
Little survives of Sutton Camera beyond its name and a single map reference: a quiet reminder of how many small medieval priories in Herefordshire…
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