Described by Queen Elizabeth I as “the fairest, goodliest and most famous parish church in the land”, St Mary Redcliffe’s dates back over 900 years. Renowned for its beautiful Gothic architecture and medieval stained glass windows, the Church also boasts a memorial to Sir William Penn (father of the founder of Pennsylvania) and a whale bone brought back by Venetian explorer John Cabot on his return from the ‘New Found Land’ in 1497. In the churchyard you will find a rather unusual monument to WWII, a length of tramline embedded in the ground after a bomb exploded in a nearby street during the Bristol Blitz.
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