Durham Cathedral
Durham Castle and Durham Cathedral sit side-by-side on a peninsula off the River Wear that looks tailor-made for these sandstone landmarks. From […]
Category: Religion
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne
The tidal 3-mile-wide island of Lindisfarne sits off the sandy Northumberland coast. Its mile-long causeway is revealed twice daily for 7-9 hours […]
Stained glass church windows
Two Northumbrian clergymen, Wilfrid (634-709/10) and Benedict (c.628-90), adopted the European idea of having stained glass church windows for their monasteries (home […]
Bell-ringing
The first Christian monks would ring handbells to summon converts to prayer and by the 7th century the abbeys had larger bells […]
The Inter Faith Network for the UK
With so many different religions bumping along together on these islands, the concept of facilitating better understanding and co-operation between them was […]
Vicars and Vicarages
The leader (‘incumbent’) of a Church of England parish church is known as a vicar, the equivalent of a priest, and his/her […]
Maundy Thursday
Maundy Thursday is the day before Good Friday. On this day Jesus reputedly washed his disciples’ feet at the Last Supper, symbolising […]
Orthodox Christianity
Before the Norman Conquest of 1066, Britain’s practice of Christianity was ‘orthodox’, i.e. faithful to the original beliefs and texts, periodically confirmed […]
The Lord’s Prayer
Until the 21st century most Britons knew The Lord’s Prayer by heart, as they recited it every weekday morning in school assembly […]
Tyndale’s New Testament
William Tyndale (c.1491-1536) from Gloucestershire was a martyr to the English language in his self-appointed though ultimately fatal mission to produce an […]
Britain’s first Christian churches
South Wales may be the site of Britain’s first Christian church, established by St. Ilid who in 37AD fled from the persecution […]