Best of South West England
The 20 best cathedrals in South West England
Our curated top 20 cathedrals in South West England, ranked by quality rating, image richness and content depth. For the complete list of 43 cathedrals see the full cathedrals index for South West England.
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Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucestershire
Norman cathedral with the world's largest fan-vaulted cloisters — Hogwarts on screen.
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Salisbury Cathedral
Britain's tallest spire, single-style Early English Gothic, holds a Magna Carta original.
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Dunkeswell Abbey
Devon
Details Dunkeswell Abbey is situated to the south of the Blackdown Hills in the hamlet of Abbey, some 3km to the north of the village of Dunkeswell and the parish church. It lies in permanent pasture
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Tarrant Abbey, site of, and tithe barn at Abbey Farm
Details This record was the subject of a minor enhancement on 16 December 2015. This record has been generated from an "old county number" (OCN) scheduling record. These are monuments that were not re
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Church of Saints Peter and Paul
Devon
Church of Saints Peter and Paul is a cathedral in the United Kingdom.
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Port Eliot
Port Eliot in the parish of St Germans, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, is the ancestral seat of the Eliot family, whose present head is Albert Eliot, 11th Earl of St Germans. Port Eliot comprises
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Sherborne Abbey
Sherborne Abbey, otherwise the Abbey Church of St. Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England church in Sherborne in the English county of Dorset. It was formerly a Saxon Catholic cathedral (705–1075) an
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Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Bedwyn
Church of St Mary the Virgin, Great Bedwyn is a cathedral in the United Kingdom.
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Exeter Cathedral
Devon
World's longest unbroken Gothic vaulted ceiling, with a 1484 astronomical clock.
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