Cathedrals and Abbeys to Visit in England
One hundred and sixteen buildings, one hundred and sixteen different reasons to go: a murder, a lightning strike, a diver who worked six years underwater by touch alone, a tower that once made the shortlist for tallest building on Earth, a king nobody else would bury, and a grave dug up to pay for a roof. England's great churches are not interchangeable Gothic boxes — each one has a specific, often strange story attached to it, and this guide is built around finding that story before you walk in.
Most of these buildings started as Norman or early Gothic churches in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, then got rebuilt, extended and re-fronted over four or five centuries as fires, collapses, fashions and ambitious bishops intervened — so a single cathedral can carry Romanesque Norman work, Early English lancets, Decorated tracery and Perpendicular fan vaulting all in one building, often in the same room. Three cathedrals here break that pattern entirely: Liverpool, Guildford and Westminster Cathedral are all essentially 20th-century buildings — a Gothic Revival giant finished in 1978, a red-brick church on a Surrey hill consecrated in 1961, and a Neo-Byzantine design that still has unfinished mosaics in its side chapels.
Almost all of the cathedrals below belong to the Church of England, the exception being Westminster Cathedral, which is the Roman Catholic cathedral for the Archdiocese of Westminster and a completely different building from the more famous Westminster Abbey next to the Houses of Parliament — a mix-up common enough that this guide flags it on that page specifically.
Not everything here is a cathedral. The one hundred and sixteen guides take in forty-one cathedrals, twenty-one parish churches, fourteen abbey churches, eleven ruined abbeys, seven Saxon churches, six priory churches, six ruined priories, three minsters, two collegiate churches, an abbey house, a college chapel, an estate church, a pilgrimage shrine and a round church. Westminster Abbey is a royal peculiar, answering directly to the Crown; many of the abbeys and minsters are parish churches the size of cathedrals, saved at the Dissolution because their towns needed them; and the roofless ruins are cared for by English Heritage, the National Trust, a city council or, at Jervaulx, a family. They are here because what matters to a visitor is the building, not its place in the diocesan structure. Each card below carries a label saying which kind of building it is.
Start here
If you are new to England’s great churches, these are the ones to see first: the buildings that set the standard the rest are measured against, from Canterbury, where English Christianity has its mother church, to the clifftop of Durham and the Cistercian valley at Fountains.
Canterbury Cathedral
Where Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170, turning the cathedral into medieval Europe's greatest pilgrimage site — the one Chaucer's pilgrims were walking to.
Westminster Abbey
Forty coronations on one patch of thirteenth-century floor — and a Coronation Chair whose famous stone now lives in Perth.
St Paul's Cathedral
Wren's dome, three shells deep with a brick cone hidden inside doing the work, and 528 steps to the top of it.
York Minster
The largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world, including the Great East Window, which survived a 1984 lightning-strike fire that destroyed the roof above it.
Durham Cathedral
A Norman masterpiece and UNESCO World Heritage Site holding the shrine of St Cuthbert.
Lincoln Cathedral
The tallest building on Earth for over two centuries after its central spire was added, and home to the carved Lincoln Imp said to have been turned to stone by an angel.
Salisbury Cathedral
Britain's tallest spire and one of the four surviving original copies of Magna Carta.
Wells Cathedral
Scissor arches built to stop the tower falling down, and a West Front lined with medieval statues.
Ely Cathedral
The “Ship of the Fens,” famous for its unique octagonal lantern tower.
Fountains Abbey
The largest monastic ruin in England, with the vaulted cellarium and Studley Royal’s water garden.
England by region
The rest of the guides are grouped by region, and within each region listed A–Z by town, so you can plan a trip around where you are staying. Jump to: London · South East · South West · East of England · Midlands · North West · Yorkshire · North East. If you know the town but not the church, use the A–Z by town further down.
London
Six very different buildings within a few miles of each other: Wren’s dome, the coronation church, the Catholic cathedral, and three survivors from medieval London hidden among the streets of the City and Southwark.
Southwark Cathedral
London’s oldest Gothic church, with Shakespeare’s memorial and the tomb of John Gower.
St Bartholomew the Great
London’s oldest parish church: the Norman choir of Rahere’s priory.
St Paul's Cathedral
Wren's dome, three shells deep with a brick cone hidden inside doing the work, and 528 steps to the top of it.
Temple Church
The round church of the Knights Templar, with its effigies of knights.
Westminster Abbey
Forty coronations on one patch of thirteenth-century floor — and a Coronation Chair whose famous stone now lives in Perth.
Westminster Cathedral
London's Catholic cathedral — a Neo-Byzantine building, not to be confused with Westminster Abbey.
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South East
Canterbury, the mother church, heads a region of cathedrals within an hour or two of London — Winchester, Rochester, Chichester and Guildford — with Oxford’s college cathedral and the Norman carving of Iffley, the abbeys of Romsey and Dorchester-on-Thames, the painted vault of Boxgrove Priory, Portsmouth’s harbour cathedral, eight centuries in the building, and Arundel’s Catholic cathedral above its castle.
Arundel Cathedral
A duke’s French Gothic church above his castle, with St Philip Howard’s shrine and the Corpus Christi flower carpet. Free.
Boxgrove Priory
A Benedictine priory choir near Chichester, with a vault painted in flowers and coats of arms. Free.
Canterbury Cathedral
Where Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in 1170, turning the cathedral into medieval Europe's greatest pilgrimage site — the one Chaucer's pilgrims were walking to.
Chichester Cathedral
The spire that fell in 1861, twelfth-century carving, the Arundel tomb — and Piper and Chagall.
Dorchester Abbey
The seat of St Birinus, the stone-tree Jesse window and a knight drawing his sword.
Guildford Cathedral
Maufe’s brick cathedral on Stag Hill, paid for by 200,000 signed bricks.
Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
A college chapel and a cathedral: St Frideswide’s shrine, the Becket window and Tom Tower.
St Mary the Virgin, Iffley
One of England’s finest Norman village churches, beakheads and all.
Portsmouth Cathedral
Becket’s chapel of the 1180s, a harbour church and a cathedral finished in 1991. Donation.
Rochester Cathedral
Founded in 604, with a Romanesque west door, a medieval Wheel of Fortune and the earliest laws written in English.
Romsey Abbey
A Norman nunnery church bought by its town for £100, two Saxon roods and Mountbatten’s grave.
Winchester Cathedral
Saved from collapse by a diver who worked underwater, entirely by touch, for six years.
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South West
The richest region in this guide: Salisbury’s spire, Wells’s west front, Gloucester’s fan-vaulted cloister and Bath, then the Dorset and Devon abbeys and collegiate churches, Buckfast rebuilt by its own monks, Glastonbury’s ruins, the Saxon churches of Deerhurst and Bradford on Avon, the Cotswold wool churches of Cirencester, Northleach and Chipping Campden, Lacock’s cloisters, and Truro at the far end of Cornwall.
Bath Abbey
Angels on ladders, a vault three and a half centuries in the making, and underfloor heating fed by the Roman springs.
The Saxon Church, Bradford-on-Avon
A rare Anglo-Saxon chapel, hidden for centuries as a school and a cottage, with its flying angels.
Bristol Cathedral
A hall-church choir with a vault like a skeleton, a carved Norman chapter house and star-shaped tomb recesses.
St Mary Redcliffe
Bristol’s great merchant church, its hexagonal north porch and a tram rail in the churchyard.
Buckfast Abbey
A working Benedictine abbey on the edge of Dartmoor, rebuilt stone by stone by its own monks. Free.
Chipping Campden Church
Wool merchants’ brasses, medieval altar hangings and the startling Noel monument. Free.
Christchurch Priory
A whole monastic church given to its town, the Miraculous Beam and an empty tomb for an executed countess.
Cirencester Parish Church
The cathedral of the Cotswolds: a great porch, a fan-vaulted chapel and Anne Boleyn’s cup. Free.
Deerhurst
Two Anglo-Saxon buildings in the Severn meadows: St Mary's Priory Church and Odda's Chapel of 1056.
Exeter Cathedral
The longest unbroken medieval Gothic vault in the world, twelve angel musicians, and a clock with a door cut for the cathedral cat.
St Mary’s, Fairford
The only complete set of late medieval windows in an English parish church: 28 of them, from Eden to the Last Judgement.
Glastonbury Abbey
Thirty-six acres of ruin, an abbot hanged on the Tor, and the most profitable grave-digging in medieval England.
Gloucester Cathedral
The earliest fan vault in the world, a murdered king's tomb, and the cloister that played Hogwarts.
Lacock Abbey
Medieval nuns’ cloisters under a country house, where Fox Talbot made the first photographic negative.
Malmesbury Abbey
Half a Norman abbey, a great carved porch, King Athelstan’s tomb and a monk who flew.
Northleach Church
The finest of the small Cotswold wool churches, with its merchants’ brasses and a cat with a fiddle. Free.
St Mary’s, Ottery St Mary
Exeter Cathedral in miniature, with a medieval astronomical clock.
Salisbury Cathedral
Britain's tallest spire and one of the four surviving original copies of Magna Carta.
Sherborne Abbey
A Saxon cathedral turned abbey, the great fan vault, and the scars of a riot in 1437.
Tewkesbury Abbey
A Norman giant the townspeople bought from Henry VIII, and the church where the Wars of the Roses came to a head.
Truro Cathedral
Victorian Gothic on a medieval scale, a Tudor aisle inside it, and the first Nine Lessons and Carols.
Wells Cathedral
Scissor arches built to stop the tower falling down, and a West Front lined with medieval statues.
Wimborne Minster
A chained library of 1686, a clock with the sun circling the earth, and the Quarter Jack.
Hailes Abbey
The Cotswold abbey of the Holy Blood, open for booked tours on the first weekend of each month.
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East of England
Ely and Norwich, the great wool churches of Suffolk, King’s College Chapel in Cambridge, the angel roof at March, Salle in the Norfolk fields and Cawston’s angel roof next door, the pilgrim village of Walsingham, Binham Priory and Norman Castle Rising, the abbey ruins at Bury St Edmunds, St Albans twenty minutes from London, and Chelmsford’s flint town church — flat country where a church tower is often the only thing on the horizon.
Binham Priory
A Norman priory nave with a great west front, a painted screen and ruins all around. Free.
Holy Trinity, Blythburgh
The Cathedral of the Marshes, its angel roof and the door scorched by Black Shuck.
Bury St Edmunds Abbey
The shrine of a martyred king and the cradle of Magna Carta: two great gates and ruins in a free public garden.
St Edmundsbury Cathedral
A Tudor nave, a 1960s quire and a Gothic tower finished in 2005, beside St Edmund’s abbey.
King’s College Chapel, Cambridge
The largest fan vault in the world, Tudor glass, a Rubens and free Evensong.
Castle Acre Priory
East Anglia’s finest monastic ruin, with a Norman west front and the prior’s lodging.
Castle Rising Church
A richly carved Norman church below one of England’s finest castle keeps. Free.
Cawston Church
An angel roof, a painted rood screen and a toast to the plough, two miles from Salle. Free.
Chelmsford Cathedral
A flint town church of the fifteenth century, full of modern art, with American links. Free.
Ely Cathedral
The “Ship of the Fens,” famous for its unique octagonal lantern tower.
St Peter and St Paul, Lavenham
The greatest of the Suffolk wool churches, built by an earl and a clothier.
Holy Trinity, Long Melford
Suffolk’s five-star wool church, with a rare collection of medieval glass.
St Wendreda's, March
A Fenland parish church with a double hammerbeam roof of well over a hundred carved angels.
Norwich Cathedral
Over a thousand painted roof bosses, a 96-metre spire and England’s largest monastic cloister — free to enter, and open until 6.30pm.
Peterborough Cathedral
A painted nave ceiling nearly eight hundred years old, and the grave of Catherine of Aragon, still strewn with pomegranates.
Salle Church
A vast fifteenth-century wool church standing alone in the Norfolk fields, built by the Boleyns and their neighbours.
St Albans Cathedral
Britain’s first martyr, a tower of Roman brick, medieval wall paintings and one of England’s longest naves.
Thaxted Church
The “cathedral of Essex”: a cutlers’ church full of light, with Holst’s organ and the story of the Red Vicar.
Walsingham
England's Nazareth: two living shrines, the Holy Mile and the great east window of the ruined priory.
Wymondham Abbey
Two rival towers, a Norman nave and Comper’s gilded reredos.
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Midlands
Lincoln on its hill, the cathedrals of the Welsh Marches at Hereford and Worcester, Coventry rebuilt beside its ruin, Derby’s Georgian nave and Birmingham’s baroque cathedral with its Burne-Jones windows, market-town churches from Boston to Ludlow, Stratford and Warwick, Shrewsbury’s Norman abbey, the Cistercian east end of Dore Abbey, and the Anglo-Saxon churches of Brixworth and Barton-upon-Humber.
Dore Abbey
The east end of a Cistercian abbey, rescued in the 1630s with a great oak screen and painted walls. Free.
St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber
An Anglo-Saxon tower of around 1000 and the story of nearly 3,000 burials. Open on selected Sundays.
Birmingham Cathedral
Archer’s baroque church and four great windows by Burne-Jones. Donation.
St Botolph’s, Boston (the Stump)
One of the tallest medieval towers in England, 209 steps up, and the church of the Pilgrim Fathers’ Boston.
All Saints', Brixworth
The largest Anglo-Saxon church still standing in England, its arches built of reused Roman tiles.
Coventry Cathedral
The ruins of November 1940 and Basil Spence’s cathedral beside them, with Epstein, Sutherland and Piper inside.
Derby Cathedral
A Tudor tower, a Georgian nave by Gibbs, Bakewell’s iron screen and Bess of Hardwick. Free.
Hereford Cathedral
The Mappa Mundi, the medieval world on a single calfskin, and a library in which every book is still chained to the shelf.
Kilpeck Church
A tiny Norman church covered in the carving of the Herefordshire School, sheela-na-gig and all.
Leicester Cathedral
The tomb of Richard III, the king found under a car park, reburied here in 2015.
Lichfield Cathedral
The only medieval cathedral in England with three spires, an Anglo-Saxon angel found under the floor, and Renaissance glass from Belgium.
Lincoln Cathedral
The tallest building on Earth for over two centuries after its central spire was added, and home to the carved Lincoln Imp said to have been turned to stone by an angel.
St Laurence’s, Ludlow
The cathedral of the Marches: 201 steps up the tower, misericords and the heart of Prince Arthur.
Great Malvern Priory
Norman piers, a wealth of fifteenth-century glass and the largest collection of medieval wall tiles in England.
Pershore Abbey
The surviving choir of a Benedictine abbey, its ploughshare vault and a hanging ringing floor.
Shrewsbury Abbey
The Norman abbey of St Winifred and Brother Cadfael, now the parish church of Holy Cross.
Southwell Minster
A Norman nave, pepperpot towers and the Leaves of Southwell, the finest stone foliage of the Middle Ages.
Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon
Where Shakespeare was baptised and buried, beside the Avon.
St Mary’s, Warwick
The Beauchamp Chapel, with its gilt bronze effigy of an earl, survived the fire of 1694 — and so did the Dudley tombs.
Worcester Cathedral
King John’s tomb and the oldest royal effigy in England, Prince Arthur’s chantry, and a Norman crypt of 1084 above the Severn.
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North West
Two twentieth-century cathedrals in Liverpool and Manchester, medieval Chester and Carlisle, and the red sandstone of the Furness and Cumbrian priories on the edge of the Lake District.
Furness Abbey
The red sandstone ruins of the second-richest Cistercian abbey in England, in a quiet valley on the edge of Barrow-in-Furness.
Carlisle Cathedral
A border cathedral cut short in the Civil War, with a starry ceiling and one of England’s finest east windows.
Cartmel Priory
William Marshal’s priory church, saved by the villagers at the Dissolution, with a tower turned through forty-five degrees.
Chester Cathedral
A Benedictine abbey that kept its cloister and refectory, and quire stalls of about 1380.
Lanercost Priory
A border priory below Hadrian’s Wall: a living nave with Burne-Jones glass and a roofless east end.
Liverpool Cathedral
The largest cathedral in Britain, designed by a 22-year-old and built almost entirely in the 20th century.
Manchester Cathedral
Medieval quire stalls and misericords, angel musicians, and glass put in after two bombs.
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Yorkshire
York Minster and the old minsters of Ripon, Beverley and Selby, the great parish churches of Hull and Holderness, York’s hidden Holy Trinity, Sheffield’s cathedral with the tombs of the Earls of Shrewsbury, and the greatest group of monastic ruins in Britain — Fountains, Rievaulx, Byland, Jervaulx, Whitby and the rest.
Beverley Minster
A parish church bigger than many cathedrals, with the Percy Tomb, a Saxon sanctuary chair and carved minstrels.
St Mary's Church, Beverley
The merchants' church at the other end of town from the Minster, with its Minstrels' Pillar and pilgrim hare.
Byland Abbey
Half a great rose window, medieval floor tiles, and free to visit.
Jervaulx Abbey
A family-owned Cistercian ruin in Wensleydale, left to the wild flowers, with an honesty box instead of a ticket desk.
Rievaulx Abbey
St Aelred’s abbey, the first Cistercian house in the north, in a wooded valley of the Moors.
Hull Minster
The largest parish church in England by floor area, built of medieval brick, where William Wilberforce was baptised.
Kirkstall Abbey
A great Cistercian church, almost complete, in a park in Leeds.
Roche Abbey
Early Gothic Cistercian ruins in a hidden limestone valley near Rotherham, once buried by Capability Brown. Free to visit.
Mount Grace Priory
England’s best-preserved Carthusian priory, with a rebuilt monk’s cell.
St Patrick’s, Patrington
The Queen of Holderness: a fourteenth-century church in a single style, with a famous spire and hundreds of carved faces.
Fountains Abbey
The largest monastic ruin in England, with the vaulted cellarium and Studley Royal’s water garden.
Ripon Cathedral
St Wilfrid’s crypt of the 670s, a crossing half finished at the Reformation, and a misericord linked to Lewis Carroll.
St Mary’s, Studley Royal
William Burges’s dazzling Victorian church in the deer park by Fountains.
Selby Abbey
A Benedictine abbey of 1069, a great fire in 1906, and the stars and stripes in medieval glass.
Sheffield Cathedral
The tombs of the earls who kept Mary, Queen of Scots, under a roof of gilded angels. Free.
Bolton Priory
A ruined choir and a living church on the Wharfe, with stepping stones and the Strid.
Whitby Abbey
St Hilda’s headland, the Synod of Whitby, the 199 steps and Dracula.
Holy Trinity, Goodramgate
A hidden medieval church by York Minster, with rare box pews and an east window of around 1470.
York Minster
The largest expanse of medieval stained glass in the world, including the Great East Window, which survived a 1984 lightning-strike fire that destroyed the roof above it.
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North East
Durham above its river, Newcastle’s lantern tower, Bede’s twin monastery at Jarrow and Monkwearmouth, Hexham’s Saxon crypt, the tiny Saxon church at Escomb, Tynemouth on its headland and Lindisfarne, reached across the sands at low tide.
Durham Cathedral
A Norman masterpiece and UNESCO World Heritage Site holding the shrine of St Cuthbert.
Escomb Saxon Church
A near-complete Northumbrian church of some 1,300 years ago, built from the stones of a Roman fort.
Hexham Abbey
Wilfrid’s crypt of about 674, built of Roman stone, the night stair and the frith stool.
Lindisfarne Priory
Holy Island: St Aidan, St Cuthbert, the Viking raid of 793 and the rainbow arch.
St Paul's, Jarrow
Bede’s church, with an Anglo-Saxon chancel and a dedication stone of 685. Free.
Newcastle Cathedral
A merchant town’s church crowned by a stone lantern of 1448, with the Thornton brass inside. Free.
St Peter's, Monkwearmouth
Benedict Biscop’s church of 674, where Bede became a monk; the porch still stands. Free.
Tynemouth Priory and Castle
A priory where three kings were buried, inside a castle on a headland at the mouth of the Tyne.
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Practical notes for the whole country
| Opening hours | Most cathedrals open around 9–10am and close between 4pm and 6pm; hours shift for services and are often shorter on Sundays, when morning worship can close the nave to sightseers until early afternoon. Always check the specific cathedral's own site before you go — hours change at short notice |
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| Admission | Unlike most Continental cathedrals, several of England's charge an entry fee, typically £10–£20, since they receive no government funding and rely on visitors to cover the cost of maintaining a medieval building. A handful remain free to enter, with donations requested instead |
| Dress code | No formal rule at any of them; modest, respectful dress as for any working place of worship |
| Photography | Generally allowed for personal use in the main body of the building; restricted or banned in crypts, during services, and in a few specific chapels — each cathedral's own guide notes the exceptions |
| Getting around | Most are on the rail network, within a short walk of their station; Glastonbury, Tewkesbury, Ripon and Southwell are not. Trains from London reach most of them in one to three hours. A car is useful if you are combining several in one trip through the West Country or the North, and necessary for Glastonbury, whose nearest station is Castle Cary and a taxi ride away; Tewkesbury is two miles from Ashchurch station, with a bus or taxi into town; Ripon is a 30-minute bus ride from Harrogate, and Southwell is about three miles from Fiskerton station |
A–Z by town
Every English guide on this site, listed by the town it stands in or nearest to.
A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · J · K · L · M · N · O · P · R · S · T · W · Y
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B
- Barrow-in-Furness — Furness Abbey
- Barton-upon-Humber — St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber
- Bath — Bath Abbey
- Beverley — Beverley Minster
- Beverley — St Mary's Church, Beverley
- Binham — Binham Priory
- Birmingham — Birmingham Cathedral
- Blythburgh — Holy Trinity, Blythburgh
- Boston — St Botolph’s, Boston (the Stump)
- Boxgrove — Boxgrove Priory
- Bradford-on-Avon — The Saxon Church, Bradford-on-Avon
- Bristol — Bristol Cathedral
- Bristol — St Mary Redcliffe
- Brixworth — All Saints', Brixworth
- Buckfastleigh — Buckfast Abbey
- Bury St Edmunds — Bury St Edmunds Abbey
- Bury St Edmunds — St Edmundsbury Cathedral
C
- Cambridge — King’s College Chapel, Cambridge
- Canterbury — Canterbury Cathedral
- Carlisle — Carlisle Cathedral
- Cartmel — Cartmel Priory
- Castle Acre — Castle Acre Priory
- Castle Rising — Castle Rising Church
- Cawston — Cawston Church
- Chelmsford — Chelmsford Cathedral
- Chester — Chester Cathedral
- Chichester — Chichester Cathedral
- Chipping Campden — Chipping Campden Church
- Christchurch — Christchurch Priory
- Cirencester — Cirencester Parish Church
- Coventry — Coventry Cathedral
- Coxwold — Byland Abbey
D
- Deerhurst — Deerhurst
- Derby — Derby Cathedral
- Dorchester-on-Thames — Dorchester Abbey
- Durham — Durham Cathedral
E
- East Witton — Jervaulx Abbey
- Ely — Ely Cathedral
- Escomb — Escomb Saxon Church
- Exeter — Exeter Cathedral
F
G
H
- Helmsley — Rievaulx Abbey
- Hereford — Hereford Cathedral
- Hexham — Hexham Abbey
- Holy Island — Lindisfarne Priory
- Hull — Hull Minster
J
K
L
- Lacock — Lacock Abbey
- Lanercost — Lanercost Priory
- Lavenham — St Peter and St Paul, Lavenham
- Leeds — Kirkstall Abbey
- Leicester — Leicester Cathedral
- Lichfield — Lichfield Cathedral
- Lincoln — Lincoln Cathedral
- Liverpool — Liverpool Cathedral
- London — Southwark Cathedral
- London — St Bartholomew the Great
- London — St Paul's Cathedral
- London — Temple Church
- London — Westminster Abbey
- London — Westminster Cathedral
- Long Melford — Holy Trinity, Long Melford
- Ludlow — St Laurence’s, Ludlow
M
- Malmesbury — Malmesbury Abbey
- Maltby — Roche Abbey
- Malvern — Great Malvern Priory
- Manchester — Manchester Cathedral
- March — St Wendreda's, March
N
- Newcastle upon Tyne — Newcastle Cathedral
- Northallerton — Mount Grace Priory
- Northleach — Northleach Church
- Norwich — Norwich Cathedral
O
- Ottery St Mary — St Mary’s, Ottery St Mary
- Oxford — Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
- Oxford — St Mary the Virgin, Iffley
P
- Patrington — St Patrick’s, Patrington
- Pershore — Pershore Abbey
- Peterborough — Peterborough Cathedral
- Portsmouth — Portsmouth Cathedral
R
- Ripon — Fountains Abbey
- Ripon — Ripon Cathedral
- Ripon — St Mary’s, Studley Royal
- Rochester — Rochester Cathedral
- Romsey — Romsey Abbey
S
- Salisbury — Salisbury Cathedral
- Salle — Salle Church
- Selby — Selby Abbey
- Sheffield — Sheffield Cathedral
- Sherborne — Sherborne Abbey
- Shrewsbury — Shrewsbury Abbey
- Skipton — Bolton Priory
- Southwell — Southwell Minster
- St Albans — St Albans Cathedral
- Stratford-upon-Avon — Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon
- Sunderland — St Peter's, Monkwearmouth
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- Tewkesbury — Tewkesbury Abbey
- Thaxted — Thaxted Church
- Truro — Truro Cathedral
- Tynemouth — Tynemouth Priory and Castle
W
- Walsingham — Walsingham
- Warwick — St Mary’s, Warwick
- Wells — Wells Cathedral
- Whitby — Whitby Abbey
- Wimborne Minster — Wimborne Minster
- Winchcombe — Hailes Abbey
- Winchester — Winchester Cathedral
- Worcester — Worcester Cathedral
- Wymondham — Wymondham Abbey
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The England chapter began with ten cathedrals and now runs to one hundred and sixteen guides across eight regions. More parish churches, abbeys and ruins will follow, built the same way as the rest of this guide — one region finished at a time, rather than published half-done everywhere at once.