Beautiful weather today, and so we had an easy excuse to stroll into the city, past the Cathedral. People have been coming to this site to pray for more than 1300 years. Today's church is the fourth to have stood here. It all started 
in 672AD, when St Wilfrid, abbot of the monastery at Ripon, built a stone basilica with a crypt in keeping with what he had seen in Rome. He brought stonemasons, plasterers and glaziers from France and Italy. The church above-ground has been rebuilt more than once but the crypt survives intact. And today, it stand tall on the hill as the Cathedral of the Diocese of Leeds. 
And people continue to come here to pray .....