Churches

Great Norman-and-Gothic cathedral with a soaring tower and a fan-vaulted cloister filmed for Harry Potter.

Gloucestershire

Triple-towered medieval cathedral crowning the hilltop city, once the tallest building in the world and visible across the plain for miles.

Lincolnshire

England's earliest Gothic cathedral, famous for its carved west front and the great scissor arches crossing the nave.

Somerset

Priory ruin on a bend of the Wharfe.

North Yorkshire

Mother church of English Christianity, soaring Gothic.

Kent

Long Norman abbey church over Roman Verulamium.

Hertfordshire

Coronation church of England’s monarchs since 1066.

London

Longest medieval cathedral in Europe.

Hampshire

Vast Gothic cathedral, largest in northern Europe.

North Yorkshire

The great Norman cathedral on its rock above the Wear, shrine of St Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede.

County Durham

Great sandstone cathedral on the Wye, home to the medieval Mappa Mundi and the world's finest surviving chained library.

Herefordshire

Early English Gothic cathedral raised in 38 years from 1220, under England's tallest spire, with an original Magna Carta and Britain's largest close.

Wiltshire

One of England's largest parish churches, its 272ft 'Stump' tower and octagonal lantern a landmark across the fens and the Wash.

Lincolnshire

Medieval cathedral on the site of St David's 6th-century monastery, a place of pilgrimage for over 1,400 years.

Pembrokeshire

Wren's domed cathedral on Ludgate Hill, finished in 1710 after the Great Fire, with its Whispering Gallery and the tombs of Nelson and Wellington.

London

Riverside cathedral above the Severn holding King John's tomb and a fine Norman crypt and chapter house.

Worcestershire

Great lantern tower riding above the flat Fens.

Cambridgeshire

One of the greatest Gothic churches in Europe and larger than many cathedrals, with 68 medieval misericords.

East Riding of Yorkshire

The only medieval English cathedral with three spires, guarding the Lichfield Gospels, the carved Lichfield Angel and Flemish Herkenrode glass.

Staffordshire

A 15th-century collegiate chapel near Roslin whose lavish stone carvings, including the Apprentice Pillar, drew fame from The Da Vinci Code.

Midlothian

Tiny stone chapel wedged into a limestone cliff cleft at St Govan's Head, reached by a flight of steps.

Pembrokeshire

Derbyshire's largest church, known across the country for its famously twisted and leaning crooked spire.

Derbyshire

Riverside cathedral among historic streets.

Perth and Kinross

Circular Arts and Crafts mortuary chapel at Compton, its terracotta interior designed by Mary Watts and built by villagers.

Surrey

A parish church in Worcestershire.

Worcestershire

Dramatic Norman nave and painted timber ceiling.

Cambridgeshire

Timber-framed medieval town in a Severn loop.

Shropshire

Late Gothic abbey church beside the Roman Baths, known for its fan vaulting and the angels climbing ladders up its west front.

Somerset

Former Augustinian abbey founded in 1140, with a rare hall-church east end whose aisles rise as high as the choir.

Bristol

Butterfield's 1851 cathedral on Great Cumbrae, the smallest cathedral in Britain, seating fewer than 100.

North Ayrshire

Red-sandstone cathedral founded as a Benedictine abbey in 1092, with fine medieval choir stalls, a cloister and a tower you can climb.

Cheshire

Norman and Gothic cathedral with a free-standing bell tower, a spire seen from the sea, and modern art from Chagall to John Piper.

West Sussex

One of England's longest parish churches, a Norman and Gothic former priory near the harbour, with its legend of the miraculous beam.

Dorset

Basil Spence's 1962 cathedral joined to the bombed shell of the old one, a pairing built around peace and reconciliation.

West Midlands

Giles Gilbert Scott's red sandstone giant, built between 1904 and 1978 and the largest cathedral in Britain.

Merseyside

Frederick Gibberd's round 1960s Catholic cathedral, known locally as Paddy's Wigwam, lit by a lantern tower of coloured glass.

Merseyside

Norman cathedral of cream Caen stone begun in 1096, with England's second-tallest spire and hundreds of carved medieval roof bosses.

Norfolk

Great medieval Cluniac abbey founded in 1163, burial place of Marjorie Bruce and the early Stewarts, still an active parish kirk.

Renfrewshire

Seat of England's second-oldest bishopric, founded in 604, with a Norman west front and a large crypt, across the green from the castle.

Kent

Ancient Mole-side church holding what is often called England's oldest monumental brass, to Sir John d'Abernon of 1277.

Surrey

Great Norman abbey church saved by the town at the Dissolution, with a massive tower and medieval tombs.

Gloucestershire

A west front with the earliest surviving bar tracery in England, before 1244.

Norfolk

Weathered medieval stone under a Victorian interior, with 15th-century choir stalls.

Stirling

Medieval cathedral surviving the Reformation.

Glasgow

Norman church said to hold King Harold's grave.

Essex

Carlisle Cathedral precinct

Cumbria

Surviving priory church with a distinctive diagonal tower.

Cumbria

The surviving tower and chancel of a Benedictine priory, high on the hills.

Worcestershire