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Religious architecture and buildings
We care for more than 50 examples of ecclesiastical architecture.
These include the remains of monasteries, some of which have been incorporated into later domestic buildings following the Dissolution. Private chapels, public churches, shrines, monasteries and monuments are also represented.
One of our outstanding religious sites is Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire, a Cistercian monastery built in the 12th century and later enlarged. It survives as an evocative ruin within Studley Royal Park, and is one of the most impressive monastic sites in England.
Also impressive are the remains of Mount Grace Priory, Yorkshire, England’s most important Carthusian ruin, which includes a reconstructed and simply furnished monastic cell.
Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, is a 13th-century Cistercian Abbey, which was once a celebrated pilgrimage site but now lies in ruins.
Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, is one of several former monasteries converted to form part of a domestic house. Its cloisters were used as part of Hogwart's School in 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'. In contrast, the medieval Keld Chapel, near Shap, Cumbria, is one of the Trust's more remote religious sites.
Religious architecture was a component of many great houses. An example is Petworth Chapel, part of Petworth House in Sussex. The medieval chapel dates from the 14th century and evokes the atmosphere of the earlier house.
The interior of the Tomb Chamber at The Vyne, Hampshire holds the monument to the Speaker by Thomas Carter the Younger. It is one of the noblest works of late-18th-century English sculpture.
Of related interest is Ty Mawr Wybrnant in Conwy. The house is the birthplace of Bishop William Morgan, first translator of the entire Bible into Welsh.
Of more quirky interest is the Pet Dog Cemetery at Polesden Lacey in Surrey, with the grave of Edward VII's Airedale, 'Caesar'.
Other National Trust places where you can see religious architecture and buildings:
Buckingham Chantry Chapel in Buckinghamshire. Ramsey Abbey Gatehouse in Cambridgeshire. St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall. Buckland Abbey, Killerton, Loughwood Meeting House in Devon. Alfriston Clergy House in East Sussex. Horton Court in Gloucestershire. Mottisfont Abbey and Sandham Memorial Chapel in Hampshire. Ightham Mote and St John's Jerusalem in Kent. Staunton Harold Church in Leicestershire. Monksthorpe Chapel on the Gunby Hall Estate in Lincolnshire. Priest's House, Easton in Northamptonshire. Farne Islands in Northumberland. Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire. Clevedon Court, Glastonbury Tor, Lytes Cary Manor, Priest's House, Muchelney, Stoke-sub-Hamdon Priory and Tyntesfield in Somerset. Gibside in Tyne & Wear. Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire.
Commemorative architecture and buildings
The Trust owns many monuments and other commemorative architecture, marking historic events or the life of great men and women. Some are intrinsic to religious buildings, private mausolea and burial grounds.
Other monuments are much more public, designed to be noticed and placed in conspicuous positions in the landscape. Sometimes, as in the case of the Lansdowne Monument near Avebury, Wiltshire, the original significance of a monument is forgotten, until it is recovered through research.
Some memorials are more recent. The John F Kennedy and American Bar Association memorials at Runnymede commemorate the American President, assassinated in 1963. They also mark the site where King John sealed the Magna Carta in 1215.
Other National Trust places where you can see commemorative architecture:
Whipsnade Tree Cathedral in Bedfordshire. Anglesey Abbey and Garden in Cambridgeshire. Hardy Monument in Dorset. Ashridge Estate in Hertfordshire. Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire. Downhill Castle, Mussenden Temple, Bishop's Gate & Black Glen in Co Londonderry. The Kymin in Monmouthshire. Gibside in Tyne & Wear. Petworth House & Park, West Sussex.
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