A Rich Tapestry of Religious Life

A 12th century chapel and priory dedicated to St Bartholomew, the old parish church of St Nicholas (14th century), the execution of Deryk Carver for his Protestant beliefs during the reign of the Catholic Queen Mary, the early establishment of a Quaker community, the Anglo-Catholic revival of the nineteenth century and the re-emergence of Roman Catholicism after a long period of persecution, and numerous forms of alternative spiritualities in the twentieth century: these are a few threads in the tapestry of the city's religious history.