Traces of cocaine discovered in Britain’s churches (Picture: METRO/Myles Goode)

Traces of cocaine have been found in churches up and down the UK – including St Paul’s Cathedral, it has been claimed.

Tests were carried out in the toilets of 25 well-known places of worship in Britain.

Swabs taken from toilet seats and cisterns revealed traces of the Class A drug in the bathrooms of 11 of them, according to the Sun which carried out the investigation.

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Traces of cocaine were found in St Paul’s Cathedral (Picture: Ratikova/Ratikova)

They include St Paul’s Cathedral, Southwark Cathedral and St Leonard’s Shoreditch in London; St Ann’s and Christ Church Moss Side in Manchester; Renfield St Stephens and St Aloysius in Glasgow; St John the Baptist in Cardiff, Our Lady and Martyrs in Cambridge, St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham and Canterbury Cathedral.

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A spokesperson for Canterbury Cathedral said it was ‘sorry’ to hear cocaine had been found.

A spokeswoman for St Paul’s added: ‘These are public toilets used by a great many members of the public, and we have about two million visitors a year.’

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