The Churches Of Britain and Ireland
Useful Links
Regarding Copyright.
Ken Roddam has kindly supplied a link to a Leeds University web-page explaining the rules of copyright pertaining to photographs.
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.
www.geograph.co.uk aims to collect a photo from every square kilometer of the British Isles. Many of those submitted are of churches.
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.
The Church of England is compiling a database (CCEd) of clergymen from 1540 to 1835.
An often useful way of finding old church images is through old postcards. The Postcard Traders Association's website is here.
The British Library has an searchable archive of over 90,000 images, many of which are of churches.
United Kingdom
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.
This website scans engravings from old out-of-copyright books. Many are of churches.
ENGLAND
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
http://www.countyviews.com/beds/church.htm
Bristol
Phil Draper's excellent
http://www.churchcrawler.co.uk/
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/, and http://www.moston.org/churches.html
Cumbria - The Carlisle Diocese.
Dorset - http://people.bath.ac.uk/lismd/dorset/churches/
Essex - a fine collection of photographs of the old parish churches of Essex. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/i.rose/chind1.htm, and John Whitworth's site here - www.essexchurches.info
Gloucestershire - http://www.john.wilkes.dial.pipex.com/churches.htm
Greater London - for the City of London, see http://www.cityoflondonchurches.com/
Hertfordshire - See Neil Bartlett's Hertford site at www.hertfordchurches.co.uk
Kent - John Vigar's Kent site at www.kentchurches.info.
Lancashire - Website of the Lancashire Methodist Circuit.
Leicestershire and Rutland - see http://www.lrfhs.org.uk/
Lincolnshire - see http://groups.msn.com:80/EnglishChurchPhotographs/. It also has church outside Lincs too.
Norfolk
http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/mainpage.htm
Oxfordshire - see John Ward's site, http://homepage.mac.com/john.ward/oxfordshirechurches/Menu171.html
and Brian Curtis's
http://www.oxfordshirechurches.info:80/
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
Dave Bown has a website with
many photos of the churches in the Sedgemoor area.
Staffordshire - http://www.thornber.net:80/
Suffolk - http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk
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 - Colin Hinson's site, has many churches, indexed under the old (pre-1974) designations of the North, East and West Ridings. Note that these areas do not exactly match todays divisions of Yorkshire.
East Riding of Yorkshire - The Hull (West) Circuit of the Methodist Church web-site has many Methodist church photos.
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.
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
http://www.raymondscountydownwebsite.com/html/photos.htm
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rosdavies/CHURCHES/A-I.htm
Many churches on Jean McCarthy's website.
Republic of Ireland
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
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.
Some history of the Church of Scotland.
WALES
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/
Llyn Peninsula (Gwynedd) - tables of dates of Nonconformist chapels, with links to photos. http://www.penllyn.com/1/Hanes/capeli.html
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".
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.
Gargoyles are the main subject of Robin Peel's latest venture.
UK Graves website contains many church photos.
For those with an interest in postcard images of churches, the following site has much useful information. http://www.ramsdale.org/epcform.htm
25 March 2008
© Steve Bulman