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Small parish church with well preserved eighteenth-century fittings. Includes impressive medieval wall paintings....
Fine two-storey granite building dating from c.1540. Originally a place where 'church ales' were held in the 16th and 17th centuries ('ales' being parish festivities raising funds for the church), the building later became almshouses, a school and a...
Imposing church built in 1653, with fine panelled interior. Set in attractive parkland, this is one of the few churches built between the outbreak of the English Civil War and the restoration of the monarchy, representing an open act of defiance to C...
The 'leaning tower' and walls of this large late medieval church survived bombing during World War II. The graveyard is now a public garden....
The siting of this ruined medieval church at the centre of a Neolithic ritual henge earthwork symbolises the transition from pagan to Christian worship....
Royal Garrison Church was constructed around 1212 as a hospital. Although the church was badly damaged in a 1941 fire-bomb raid on Portsmouth, the chancel was saved.
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The foundations of a small medieval church, traditionally the site of King John's submission to the Papal Legate in 1213....
A delightful Norman church, displaying one of the most outstandingly complete and well-preserved sets of medieval wall paintings in England, dating from the 12th and 14th centuries....
A traditional English churchyard, Edvin Loach contains both a 19th-century church and the remains of an 11th-century church....
The best example in England of a small Norman Benedictine priory church, surviving in a surprisingly unaltered state despite later conversion into a barn....
St Peter's church combines a remarkably complete Anglo- Saxon tower and rare baptistry, dating mainly from c. 970, with a tall and impressive medieval nave and chancel displaying a range of architectural styles. This much studied church is an archaeo...
This magnificent High Victorian Anglican church was designed in the 1870s by the flamboyant architect William Burges, and has been called his 'ecclesiastical masterpiece'. Its extravagantly decorated interior displays coloured marble, stained glass, ...
Is the truncated remnant of a larger monastic church founded in 1078. Overlooking Elstow green and Moot Hall the church has two stain glass windows connected with Bunyan, one depicts scenes from the Pilgrims Progress and the other the Holy War. ...
We run a guided walk that will talk you through the churches history. Many of the graves are of great interest such those of Sir Daniel Gooch, Great Western Railway pioneer, Mrs. Mary Anne Hull, nurse to all Queen Victoria's children (whose names are...
Deskford Church is the ruin of a small late medieval church with a richly carved sacrament house of a type characteristic of north-east Scotland....
Kinkell Church are now the ruins of a 16th-century parish church, with fine sacrament house dated 1524, and the grave slab of Gilbert de Greenlaw, killed in battle in 1411.
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The interesting ruins of an important medieval parish church. At its west end is a tall Romanesque tower. The remainder of the church is mostly of 15th-century date.
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A 16th-century parish church, with a finely painted wooden ceiling illustrating heraldic and symbolic subjects, added in the 1630s.
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This picturesque parish church houses the nineth century Dupplin Cross, a masterpiece of Pictish stonework. The Dupplin Cross is one of a few complete, free-standing early medieval crosses that survive in Scotland.It is carved from a single block of ...
St Mary's Church, Kirkheugh is the scanty foundations of a small cruciform church on the edge of the cliff behind the cathedral. It was the earliest collegiate church in Scotland. Destroyed at the Reformation....
A late Gothic church, with a three-sided east end with windows of unusual style. The church is located next to Castle Semple and Barr lochs, both important for their plants and birds. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds RSPB has a visitor c...
At the Maybole Collegiate Church the chapel of St Mary was founded by John Kennedy of Dunure in 1371 and the associated college 11 years later. Its function was to allow prayers to be said for the founder and his family.
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The choir and south side of the nave of a late 14th-century parish church. The choir contains three canopied monuments to the Douglas family, including the tomb of Good Sir James who famously carried Bruce's heart on Crusade....
The Dunglass Collegiate Church was founded in 1450 for a college of canons by Sir Alexander Hume. The handsome cross-shaped building contains a vaulted nave, choir and transepts, all with stone slab roofs....
Lauderdale Aisle, St Mary's Church is the former sacristy of the great 15th-century parish church, with a splendid monument of early 17th-century date, in marble, with alabaster effigies....
Serving the Setons Seton is one of the finest medieval collegiate churches surviving in Scotland. Its story begins in the 12th century, when the site was chosen for a new church serving the parishioners of Seton. In the 15th century, the churc...
The lower part of a chapel built by James III, housing the shrine of St Triduana, a Pictish saint. The hexagonal vaulted chamber is unique...
The richly carved Romanesque doorway of the old parish church of Edrom, in the kirkyard.
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The remains of a collegiate church and the accommodation for its canons founded in 1389 by Archibald the Grim, 3rd Earl of Douglas on the site of an earlier nunnery. The splendid chancel was probably added by his son Archibald, the 4th Earl, and h...
A fine 16th-century church, built by the eighth chief MacLeod of Dunvegan and Harris and containing his richly-carved tomb.
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The Earl's Bu is the name for the foundations of ancient buildings, which may be an Earl's residence of the Viking period. The church is of the 12th-century, and consists of the chancel and part of the nave of the only medieval round church in Sc...
Eynhallow Church is a ruined 12th-century monastic church and post-medieval domestic buildings. The island of Eynhallow. Can only be reached by private hire boat from mainland Orkney or Rousay....
Pierowall Church are now the ruins of a medieval church with some finely lettered tombstones....
St Magnus Church is the complete but roofless ruin of a 12th-century church with a round tower, dramatically sited. Access to St Magnus Church is on the island of Egilsay 0.5m from pier. Reached using Orkney Ferries Ltd from Tingwall Terminal....
Westside Church, Tuquoy is a small and elegant 12th-century nave-and-chancel church, later the parish church, now roofless. Westside Church, Tuquoy was built by a wealthy Norse chieftain, the remains of whose farm can be seen in the adjacent cliff...
This small reserve provides a delightful circular walk around reedbeds, fens and pools. In spring and summer, marsh harriers, kingfishers, water rails, and reed and sedge warblers can be seen. Wetland wild flowers provide a riot of colour.
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Escomb Saxon Church is one of the finest Saxon churches in England and dates back to the 7th century....
This attraction gives the closest possible insight into civilian life during World War Two. Explore the everyday hardships of people living and working in war-torn Britain, including evacuation, food & clothes rationing, bomb disposal, air-raids a...
Welcome to the website for St Andrew's Cathedral at Aberdeen. This church is part of the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney in the Scottish Episcopal Church and is supported by a diverse congregation of people. The Holy Eucharist is central to th...
There has been a church on this site since around 800 A.D.
The present building was begun in 1094 by Ranulf Flambard and has since been in continuous use as a place of prayer and pilgrimage.
Visitors never fail to be amazed to find such a beaut...
Cathedral and Abbey Church of St Alban stands over the place where Alban, the first martyr, was buried after giving his life for his faith over 1700 years ago, that is more than 200 years before St Augustine arrived in Canterbury....
Brass rubbing is an enjoyable way of discovering a little more about medieval church history with the added bonus of making your own artwork to take home. We have a choice of replica memorial brasses on offer, and we provide all the necessary papers ...
Lambeth Palace acts as a home for the Archbishop and his family when in London and as the central office for his national and international ministry. The Archbishop employs several dozen staff to support him in his work there. In addition to the ...
