Churches & Religious Buildings in North East England.
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York Minster
If you're visiting York, you can't miss the enormous cathedral at the heart of the city - York Minster - the largest Gothic Cathedral in Northern Europe. |
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Auckland Castle
Auckland Castle is the home of the Bishop of Durham, and has been for the past 900 years. |
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Kirkstall Abbey
In 1889 a Leeds man, Colonel John North, purchased the abbey and surrounding land and generously presented them to the City of Leeds |
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Mount Grace Priory
Although Mount Grace Priory is just a short drive from the grand ruins of the Cistercian Fountains Abbey it depicts the contrasting simplicity and austerity of life at this well-preserved former priory of the Carthusian Order. |
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Rievaulx Abbey
Set in a remote corner of the North Yorkshire Moors, it is easy to see what attracted St Aelred and his twelve Clairvaux monks to establish a monastery here in 1132. |
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Wakefield Cathedral
The ancient Parish Church of All Saints, Wakefield became the Cathedral Church of All Saints in 1888, when the Diocese of Wakefield was carved out of Ripon Diocese. |
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Whitby Abbey
Best known as the setting for Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, the impressive ruins of Whitby Abbey were once the home of a Saxon saint. |
