English Heritage sites near Wingate Parish
FINCHALE PRIORY
10 miles from Wingate Parish
The very extensive remains of a 13th-century priory, founded on the site of a retired pirate's hermitage. Part of it later served as a holiday retreat for the monks of Durham Cathedral.
AUCKLAND CASTLE DEER HOUSE
12 miles from Wingate Parish
A charming Gothic Revival 'eyecatcher' built in 1760 in the park of the Bishops of Durham. It provided deer with shelter and food, and had grounds for picnics and rooms for enjoying the view.
HYLTON CASTLE
15 miles from Wingate Parish
The distinctive and highly decorative gatehouse-tower of a castle built by the wealthy Sir William Hylton, shortly before 1400. Originally containing four floors of self-contained family.
PIERCEBRIDGE ROMAN BRIDGE
17 miles from Wingate Parish
Stonework foundations, now marooned in a field, of a bridge which once led to Piercebridge Roman Fort.
GISBOROUGH PRIORY
18 miles from Wingate Parish
The ruins of an Augustinian priory founded by the Bruce family, afterwards Kings of Scotland. They are dominated by the dramatic skeleton of the 14th-century church's east end.
ST PAUL'S MONASTERY, JARROW
19 miles from Wingate Parish
The home of the Venerable Bede, chronicler of the beginnings of English Christianity, Jarrow has become one of the best-understood Anglo-Saxon monastic sites.
No churches found in Wingate Parish