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🔔 Cathedrals & Castles







What game is being played here?

Can members say the rhyme & make the hand signs?




Name the church?

Ask members to say the rhyme together ...




Name the cathedral & city?

Name the current Pope?




Name the chapel?

Name the painting & the artist?


Factoid. The artist was made to paint the ceiling and in a secret act of defiance he painted Adam (the first man) with a belly button & God sitting in a brain, i.e. science over religion.




Name the place where this girl saw visions of the Virgin Mary?

What is her saint name?




Name the cathedral & the city?

Name the architect?




Name the cathedral & city?

Name the square?




Name the cathedral & city?

What are the tourist boats called?




Name the English cathedral & the river it sits next to?

Name the 700 year old map that resides within?




Name this Jerusalem church?

What place of worship would you find inside?




Name the largest cathedral in Britain?

What do locals call its Catholic counterpart?




Name this London cathedral & the gallery at the base of the dome?

Name the architect?




Name the cathedral & the city?

Name the narrow streets leading up to it?




Name the cathedral, the river it sits on & the city?

What year did it catch fire (some people said they saw an image of Christ in the flames)?




Name this Welsh cathedral city?

When is his feast day & can you name the other three patron saints?




Ireland - he banished snakes

Scotland - he was Christ's first disciple

England - he slayed a dragon




While we're talking about the four nations, what are our four flowers?




Name the royal abbey?

Name this couple who married there in 2011?




Name these twinned islands?

In which regions of the two countries would you find them?




Name England's oldest cathedral?

Who wrote tales about it and the city in 1400?




Which English cathedral has the tallest spire & houses the 'Magna Carta' (a royal charter of rights)?

Which King wrote it in 1215?




In which Italian cathedral would you find the 'Holy Shroud'?

Who believes it to be genuine; who believes it to be a medieval forgery (bearing in mind photographic negative was not invented until 1826?




Which English cathedral is near Glastonbury?

What are the swans famous for doing there?




Which Italian cathedral has a leaning tower?

What was the degree of lean before stabilisation?




Which Italian cathedral has one of the largest domes in the world? Which statue (replica) would you find in the square outside)?




What is the name of St James's cathedral in northern Spain?

What is the name of the pilgrimage path that connects France to it?




Name this Holy Island in Northumberland?

Name the castle nearby?




Name this church & abbey?

Which horror character is associated with this town?




Name the TV show or movie?




Reminiscence. Who has tasted this wine? Can you remember any other golden oldies?