The Churches of Britain and Ireland
Useful Links There are a number of books available on-line, for free! Church-related ones are listed here. United Kingdom/Republic of Ireland Howard Richter has drawn my attention to this huge on-line document, which lists all non-CoE places of worship currently licensed in England and Wales. Howard estimates about 32,000 in total. Very useful for when you are planning a photographic campaign! If anyone can point me to similar Irish or Scottish documents, I'll add those here as well. It can be useful to search YouTube for videos of churches, and for photos, Geograph, The English Parish Church, The Digital Atlas, Bigblackcat, Flickr also has a church section, The British Library has a searchable archive, postcard sites: http://churchphotos.homestead.com/Britain.html; Postcard Traders Association. Many individual counties have web-sites devoted to their churches - they can be found through the GENUKI site, which also has a concordance of the old and new counties. GENUKI itself also has many church photos. For those planning a church visiting expedition, this website may prove useful - it lists the locked/unlocked/key-holder status of many churches - see the "Church Locking" tab. And Church Days is another website suggesting churches worth visiting. Findachurch lists churches by selected area, with maps, and has links to many individual church web-sites. Lots of useful architectural information on the Pevsner site. And the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland is a valuable resource too. For Catholic Churches, Taking Stock is devoted to assessing the "historical and architectural importance of every Catholic Church" in England and Wales. Church Plans On-line has a large number of architects drawings. The Church of England is compiling a database (CCEd) of clergymen from 1540 to 1835. English Buildings is an architectural blog, including many of churches. This is the Friends of Friendless Churches website. A nice site devoted to "Tin Tabernacles". British Listed Buildings - covering all of the listed properties in England, Scotland and Wales, many of which are, of course, churches. Mike Berrell has pointed me to an interesting document listing dedications and their frequency. Sadly, the last page includes only a partial listing of dedications by parish, which would have been a very useful resource. And for those possibly interested in buying a redundant church in England, here's a website to help - closed-churches-for-sale-england.html. My Primitive Methodist Ancestors has many photographs of P.M. chapels - and also an Unknowns section. The growing website http://www.oldukphotos.com has many church photos, and http://www.roll-of-honour.com/ is also worth checking out, although most photos are of commemorative monuments only. Stock Photography of British and Irish Churches - Foto Search has hundreds of pictures of churches in Britain and Ireland, easily accessed by a search tool. This website scans engravings from old out-of-copyright books. Many are of churches. The website Old Pictures of the United Kingdom has photos from across the British Isles, some of churches. The Footsteps website, although commercial, has a large collection of free-to-view church photos. British Listed Buildings Online. Stella Fisher has a particular interest in Saxon Churches. Her new website starts off with Yorkshire Saxon churches. Mike Berrell recommends
the British Churches
Album, a website with similar aims to this one,
http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/, which includes some church photos,
and a Flickr group,
specialising in closed churches and chapels.
Taking Stock is a website with many photos and historical notes about Catholic Churches in England and Wales. Specialist interests - Medieval wall-paintings; Bell-ringing; Misericords; Stained glass, Holy Wells; Wool Churches, Yew Trees.
The
English Heritage
website contains many photos of listed buildings of all types, many being
churches. South-East - http://www.roughwood.net/ChurchAlbum/ChurchFrames.htm specialises in church photos from East and West Sussex, and Kent. Bedfordshire Bristol Buckinghamshire - most of the parish churches in Bucks are covered at http://www.countyviews.com/bucks/church.htm Cambridgeshire - a fine site devoted to the churches of Cambridgeshire. http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/ Cheshire - http://www.thornber.net:80/, http://www.moston.org/churches.html. Cornwall Cumbria - The Carlisle Diocese. Derbyshire - see http://www.derbyshireuk.net/derbyshirechurches_menu.html and http://www.derbyshirechurches.org.uk/. Devon Dorset - http://people.bath.ac.uk/lismd/dorset/churches/ Essex - a fine collection of photographs of Essex Churches. Also - Essex Church Photographs.
Gloucestershire
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http://www.awdt59.dsl.pipex.com/xglos
Greater London - for the City of London, see http://www.cityoflondonchurches.com/, and there is a more general London site here - http://londonchurchbuildings.wordpress.com/
Greater Manchester Hampshire
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John Vigar's
Hampshire site at
www.hampshirechurches.co.uk. John's personal site is
here. Hertfordshire - See Hertfordshire Church Photographs, and http://hertfordshirechurches.wordpress.com/ Isle of Man - See http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/parishes/ Kent - John Vigar's Kent site at www.kentchurches.info. John's personal site is here. Lancashire
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Genuki has a number of photos
here, as has the
On Line Parish Clerks website. Lincolnshire - see
http://www.wparkinson.com/, and
http://lincolnshirechurches.blogspot.co.uk/. Norfolk
Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire - see John Ward's site, www.oxfordshirechurches.com and Brian Curtis's http://www.oxfordshirechurches.info:80/ Rutland Shropshire - See John Cutts' site at http://www.shropshirehistory.co.uk/. The Shropshire FHS has a good number of church photos. Shropshire's non-conformist chapels at http://www.users.waitrose.com/~coxfamily/index.html Somerset Staffordshire - http://www.thornber.net:80/ Suffolk - http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk Surrey - http://www.wsfhs.org/churches.htm Sussex - http://www.sfhg.org.uk/church.html, and West Sussex - http://www.johnowensmith.co.uk/churches/indxwssx.htm Warwickshire - Warwickshire Churches. West Midlands - Many photos of the Birmingham Circuit Methodist Churches are here. Worcestershire. Gilbert Barlow has a growing selection of Worcestershire churches on Flickr here. Wiltshire - see http://www.oodwooc.co.uk/
Yorkshire
South Yorkshire The
Richard's Church Albums website contains many church photos, mainly from
south-west England, and
http://www.foxysislandwalks.co.uk/Oxfordshire-Church_Photos.html has many from Oxfordshire,
Buckinghamshire and neighbouring Counties.
A Manx Note Book - source for all things Manx, with many photos.
Northern Ireland The Methodist Church In Ireland - Resources web-site includes photos of every Methodist Church in the island of Ireland. County Tyrone - see Linda Bailey's site at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tyrone/photos/churches/index.html County Down Many churches on
Jean McCarthy's website.
The Methodist Church In Ireland - Resources web-site includes photos of every Methodist Church in the island of Ireland. County Monaghan - see Brian McConnell's site at http://photos.yahoo.com/brian.mcconnell
A changing set of featured churches from across Scotland on the Churches of Scotland site. Some history of the Church of Scotland. Argyll & Bute - Ian Phillips has a site specialising in Mull Genealogy, which has a collection of church photographs. http://www.mullgenealogy.co.uk Dumfries & Galloway - See Sandy Pittendreigh's excellent site here.
Mike Berrell has advised that chapels in Wales are closing at the alarming rate of one per week. Recommended to Mike by the Deacon of Rhyl's Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, the Chapels Heritage Society celebrates their history and buildings. He also recommends the Grand Declines - Welsh Ruins & Welsh Ruined Mansions with many chapel photos, and the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Welsh Stained Glass in celebrated here. Anglesey - is comprehensively covered on Phil Evans' Churches%20on%20Anglesey.htm. Also see the Anglesey - Mon Info Web. Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire. See http://www.dyfedfhs.org.uk/. Clwyd Family History Society has photos of every parish church. Llyn Peninsula (Gwynedd) - tables of dates of Nonconformist chapels, with links to photos. http://www.penllyn.com/1/Hanes/capeli.html Montgomery - Useful survey of Montgomery Churches (effectively, most of northern Powys).
Pembrokeshire
Other Links For those with an interest in church archaeology - http://www.cpat.demon.co.uk/projects/longer/churches/churches.htm The Churches Conservation Trust. The Ecclesiological Society, "for those who love churches". Gargoyles are the main subject of Robin Peel's latest venture. Green Man - East Anglia explores "Green Man" carvings in the churches of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, and their history and folklore. Many church photographs. UK Graves website contains many church photos. A scholarly site dedicated to fonts in all their variety.
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12 February 2024
© Steve Bulman