Here I am again.

 Let's try this for a bit.

I've got a new project, which is over planning a vacation to the UK.  The plan right now is for some time in 2022, maybe 2023 and spending 3 to 4 weeks.  I'm limiting myself to Great Britain, that is, Scotland, England and Wales, Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Isles won't be considered for this trip.

First step is figuring out what I want to see.  I'm starting with Cathedrals. 

Cathedral is a slippery word.  To a lot of people it means "Big Church". The technical definition is the home church of a bishop.  There are many denominations in the UK that have bishops, but the big ones are the Roman Catholics and the Anglican Churches.  I'm going to ignore the cathedrals of all of the smaller denominations and focus on those two.  Plus I'm going to include those churches within the Church of Scotland that were medieval cathedrals before the Presbyterians got rid of bishops. So the list of potential sites includes, those Church of Scotland churches, the established Church of England cathedrals, the Church in Wales cathedrals and the Scottish Episcopal Church cathedrals, along with the Roman Catholic Cathedrals.

There are 94 buildings on that list.  I'm going to work my way through all of them looking for reasons why I would want to visit them and ranking them accordingly. My preferences are for medieval and all of the Scottish Episcopal Cathedrals and the RC cathedrals are modern, so while, I'll take a look at them, they are unlikely to rank high.

My first step was to collate a bunch of "best Cathedrals" for the British Isles I found on the web.  After throwing out Irish and other Cathedrals, plus things that weren't Cathedrals, like Westminster Abbey, there were 43 buildings that were ranked on at least one list.  There were 51 that didn't make any list.  I'm going to work my way through all 94 of them, starting with the 51 and ranking them by my own criteria. Publishing the results here as I work.

Stay tuned.