France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Spain and Malta: Canterbury and Marseille cathedrals, Fontfroide Abbey, the churches and Portuguese Synagogue of Amsterdam, Mdina and Vannes.
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Set among the vineyards and garrigue of the Corbières, Fontfroide is one of the great Cistercian houses of southern France. Its church, cloister and chapter house survive largely intact, and the abbey was restored rather than left to ruin.
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Known simply as La Major, Marseille's cathedral rises in bands of green and white stone at the edge of the Joliette docks. Built in the nineteenth century on a monumental scale, it embodies the ambitions of a port at the height of its power.
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Perched on a rocky spur above the vineyards of the Corbières, Aguilar is one of the fortresses known as the Cathar castles. Its concentric walls and towers were built to hold a medieval frontier between two kingdoms.
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Vannes has kept what most French towns lost: an almost complete circuit of ramparts, a dense medieval core of timber-framed houses, and a cathedral at its centre. The old town of the Breton dukes remains legible street by street.
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Perched on a hilltop in the centre of Malta, Mdina was the island's capital for centuries. Enclosed by bastions, its narrow shaded lanes, noble palaces and cathedral have earned it the name of the Silent City.
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Built for Amsterdam's Sephardic community in the seventeenth century, the Esnoga remains without electric lighting: its immense interior is lit by hundreds of candles. Alongside it stands the historic Ets Haim library.
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The Oude Kerk is the oldest surviving building in Amsterdam, a medieval parish church with a painted wooden ceiling and a floor of gravestones, standing incongruously in the middle of the city's most notorious quarter.
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Built for Protestant worship in the Dutch Renaissance style, the Zuiderkerk gave Amsterdam one of its most admired towers. No longer a parish church, it survives as a landmark of the city's golden-age skyline.
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Devotion to the Sacred Heart produced some of Spain's most emphatic religious buildings. This sanctuary, monumental in scale and prominently sited, is filmed as both architecture and as a place of continuing pilgrimage.
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Seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury and mother church of the Anglican Communion, Canterbury Cathedral has drawn pilgrims since the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170. Its Gothic quire and medieval glass anchor a World Heritage site.
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Set in a hollow beside the River Taff on the edge of Cardiff, Llandaff Cathedral was devastated by a wartime landmine and rebuilt around Jacob Epstein's aluminium Christ in Majesty, one of the boldest interventions in a British church.
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Perched on the escarpment above Romney Marsh in Kent, Lympne Castle looks out over ground that was open water in Roman times. Below its walls lie the collapsed remains of a Roman fort of the Saxon Shore.
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Small, plain and astonishingly old, St Martin's is where a Frankish queen worshipped before the conversion of Anglo-Saxon Kent. Recognised as the oldest parish church in continuous use in the English-speaking world, it forms part of Canterbury's World Heritage Site.
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Above the cliffs of Folkestone stands the parish church of St Mary and St Eanswythe, dedicated to an early Anglo-Saxon princess who founded one of England's first religious communities for women, and whose relics are preserved within its walls.
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