🏛️ Durham Castle and Cathedral

← All sites

Durham Castle and Cathedral is a World Heritage Site in Durham, England, inscribed in 1986, with a minor boundary modification in 2008. The site pairs the Norman cathedral—begun in the late 11th to early 12th centuries to house the relics of St Cuthbert and the Venerable Bede and noted for vaulting that anticipated the Gothic—with the adjoining Norman castle, seat and stronghold of the prince-bishops. Occupying a defensible peninsula above a bend of the River Wear, the property covers about 8.79 ha.

Read the full article on Wikipedia →

Quick facts

Durham Castle and Cathedral is a cultural World Heritage site in United Kingdom, in Europe. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Durham Castle and Cathedral was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

More sites in United Kingdom

Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites · City of Bath · Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey · Tower of London · Old and New Towns of Edinburgh · Giant's Causeway and Causeway Coast · Canterbury Cathedral · Maritime Greenwich · Ironbridge Gorge · Jurassic Coast · Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal · Palace of Blenheim · Lake District · Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape · St Kilda, Scotland · Derwent Valley Mills · New Lanark · Saltaire · Wall of Hadrian · Heart of Neolithic Orkney · Blaenavon Industrial Landscape.

Coordinates are an approximate site centre. Introduction & image: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), cached 30 days; the page renders even if the feed is momentarily unreachable.