Newport Cathedral, also known as St Gwynllyw’s or St Woolos’s Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Diocese of Monmouth within the Church in Wales and the seat of the Bishop of Monmouth. Its official title is Newport Cathedral of St Woolos, King and Confessor. The saint’s name, Woolos, anglicises the Welsh name Gwynllyw. It became […]
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After the rolling hills of Dorset, this area of Somerset called the ‘Somerset Levels’, for obvious visual reasons, comes as quite a change. Having just gotten used to the Western country’s answer to Holland, it comes as a surprise to suddenly find a large hill rising sharply out of the surrounding landscape. This is Burrow […]
A church has stood on the site since at least the 12th century, but the present building, which sprang from the ruins of an earlier one, dates from 1454. It is more extensive in length and height than the earlier building and is one of the finest mediaeval churches in East Anglia. Its tower has […]
The Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham is a Church of England shrine church built in 1938 in Walsingham, Norfolk, England. Walsingham is the site of the reputed Marian apparitions to Richeldis de Faverches in 1061. The Virgin Mary is, therefore, venerated at the shrine with the title of Our Lady of Walsingham. The […]
Llandaff Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral and parish church in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales. It is the seat of the Bishop of Llandaff, head of the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff. It is dedicated to Saint Peter and Saint Paul and three Welsh saints: Dubricius (Welsh: Dyfrig), Teilo and Oudoceus (Welsh: Euddogwy). It is one […]
St Mary’s Priory, Binham, or Binham Priory, is a ruined Benedictine priory located in the village of Binham in the English county of Norfolk. Today, the nave of the much larger priory church has become the Church of St. Mary and the Holy Cross and is still used as a place of worship. The remains […]