Buildings in United Kingdom

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Beverley Minster

Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire

One of the finest Gothic churches in Europe, and often called the most beautiful church in England that isn't a cathedral.

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Bodleian Library and Radcliffe Camera, Oxford

Oxford, Oxfordshire

The heart of the University of Oxford: the Bodleian, one of the oldest libraries in Europe, and the domed Radcliffe Camera beside it, Oxford's most f…

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King's College Chapel, Cambridge

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

A masterpiece of late Gothic architecture, built between 1446 and 1515, with the largest fan-vaulted ceiling in the world and magnificent stained gla…

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Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament

City of Westminster, Westminster

Westminster Abbey has been the coronation church of English monarchs since 1066, and holds the tombs of kings and queens, and of Newton, Darwin and m…

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Windsor Castle

Windsor, Windsor and Maidenhead

The oldest and largest occupied castle in the world and an official residence of the King.

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York Minster and the Shambles

York

York Minster is one of the largest Gothic cathedrals in northern Europe, with the Great East Window, the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in…

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Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury, Kent

The mother church of the Anglican Communion and one of England's oldest Christian sites, founded in 597.

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London Eye

Lambeth

A 135 m observation wheel on the South Bank of the Thames, opposite the Houses of Parliament.

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St Mary's Church, Beverley

Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire

A beautiful medieval parish church at the other end of Beverley's centre from the Minster, with a painted chancel ceiling showing all the kings of En…

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The Bluecoat, Liverpool

Liverpool

Liverpool city centre's oldest building, a Queen Anne-style former charity school built in 1717, and now the UK's oldest arts centre.