Ripon

Ripon stands near the River Ure in northern Yorkshire, its minster rising above an old market town. The church traces its origins to a monastery associated with St Wilfrid in the seventh century; its ancient crypt survived beneath later buildings. The collegiate foundation was dissolved in 1547, but the church continued as the parish church. In 1836 it became the cathedral of a new diocese, giving renewed standing to an ancient religious centre.