Name: Durham Cathedral
Brand: Euan's Guide
Rating: 4.5 (7 reviews)

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Durham Cathedral has been a place of welcome, worship and hospitality for almost a millennium, inspiring all who come. It is cherished for its magnificent Romanesque architecture and spectacular location at the heart of the Durham World Heritage Site. Despite being nearly 1,000 years old, the majority of Durham Cathedral is accessible to all visitors including Open Treasure, a new world-class exhibition route opening in spring 2016.

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Overall rating

4.5

(7 reviews)

Overall rating breakdown

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4 4
3 1
2 0
1 0

Access (avg.)

4.21

Parking (avg.)

3.35

Toilets (avg.)

3.85

Staff (avg.)

4.92

alanhathaway

May 2025

Friendly and interesting

Visited the cathedral and Museum. We parked down the hill and I managed to slowly walk up, once up the grounds are all pretty level, somewhat uneven though. Staff all really friendly and we enjoyed our time wandering around and trying to find the harry potter spots. Museum was well worth visiting. Lifts available. You can park on the grounds and there is a bus up to the grounds so all nice and accessible.

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russellyokoi

Oct 2024

4.5

Cathedral Visit

Great visit to the Cathedral, super friendly staff, good parking nearby (have to use the voice com to enter Palace Green (& need blue badge)). Restaurant also v good and accessible

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mrsgap

Sept 2024

Good access for a medieval building

You do need to get the bus up to the cathedral, but it takes wheelchairs. Level access into the cathedral and ramps at many of the places where there are steps - though not all are possible, they didn't have disabled pilgrims in mind in the middle ages! The stewards were all incredibly helpful on making sure I could get where I needed and pointing the best way. The lift down to the toilets/cafe/shop wasn't working in the day we went, but we were shown a way round. There is a suggested donation, but entirely voluntary.

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Disabled Access Information for Durham Cathedral

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Access to the Cathedral is mostly via ramps. Access to the Cathedral Shop, Undercroft Restaurant and Toilets is by steps and a lift. There is a level route as well, that requires leaving the Cloister and following a route outside the main building. Within the Cathedral Church, the Chapel of Nine Altars, the Gregory Chapel and the Shrine of St Cuthbert have no ramps. We do have a stairclimber which can enable manual wheelchair users to visit these areas under the guidance of a Cathedral employee. Please contact us in advance if you wish to use the Stairclimber.

Seating at regular intervals

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We have very limited parking behind the Cathedral which may be available to single vehicles displaying a disabled badge. We are unable to reserve the disabled parking and the space is available on a first come, first serve basis. On arrival, please contact the duty porter who will endeavour to accommodate people with disabilities.

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