Explore Religious Heritage Across Europe

St Mary's church sits within the former nave of Lanercost Priory, an Augustinian monastery founded in 1169. Part of the medieval settlement is in use as the village hall, part is cared for by English Heritage and can be visited, and part has been converted to private dwellings.

The Lauderdale Road Synagogue in London is a Sephardi synagogue completed in 1896. This brick building in the Neo-Byzantine style still serves as a synagogue.

Leeds Grand Mosque is a Muslim place of worship inaugurated in 1994 that offers services to a diverse Muslim community.

Lincoln Cathedral punctuates the city skyline and can be seen for many miles. Once the tallest building in the world (before the central spire fell down in 1548), it is still impressive in scale and stature, with its iconic three towers, the highly carved stone west front with its Norman arches and , the largest east window of its type in Europe and a ten sided Chapter House with impressive flying buttresses.

The present building was consecrated in 1623 having been built to the designs of Inigo Jones.

Follow in the footsteps of the ancient monks who built their priory here nearly 1,400 years ago, and explore the wild coastal beauty of Holy Island. The extensive ruins visible today are dominated by the 12th century priory church, which probably stands on the same spot as its Anglo Saxon predecessor. The associated monastic buildings were modified in the later Middle Ages in response to the changing needs and numbers of the monks.

From the very early days of its origins and starting to build just after the turn of the 20th century, through to its completion in 1978 after 74 long, hard, but rewarding years, the unfolding story of this great cathedral, the largest in the whole of the UK and the fifth largest in the world, is unique and fascinating.

The current building of the Cathedral of Liverpool was the fourth attempt of the Catholic Church in the North West of England to built a ‘mother church’ for the diocese in Liverpool. The execution of the building from start to finish has been a long process that stretches back over a century. During the fourth attempt in 1960, Architects from all over the world were invited to design a cathedral. The building had to be built within five years and should not coast more than £1,000,000. In the end, Sir Frederick Gibberd’s design was chosen and the building began in 1962. In 1967 the cathedral was consecrated. Besides the special shape, the cathedral has received original nicknames such as ‘Paddy’s wigwam’ or ‘Launch ramp of the Pope’.

London Central Mosque is an Islamic place of worship next to London's Regent's Park.

The Machzike Hadath (Spitalfields Great) Synagogue in London is an Ashkenazi synagogue built in 1742-43 by architect Thomas Stubbs as the ‘New French Church’. It was rebuilt in 1897 by A.J. Hopkins and in 1957. This brick building in the Georgian style now serves as a mosque.