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Lists of churches in England include lists of notable current or former church buildings, territories, places of worship, or congregations, and may be discriminated by various criteria, including affiliation, location, or architectural characteristics.
The Church of England has some 16,000 church buildings, in 13,000 parishes covering the whole of England, as well as 43 cathedrals. Together they form a unique collection of buildings; between 12,000 and 13,000 churches are listed, i.e. are recognised by the government as being of exceptional historic or architectural importance.
Residential (Church House) Local builders Snewin Brothers erected this chapel in 1877 for the Free Episcopal Church of England to the design of M.E. Habershon and E.P.L. Brock. Their Early English Gothic Revival design used red and yellow brick, flint and stone. In 1896, the Littlehampton Methodist Society paid £860 (equivalent to £125,700 in ...
One of the oldest unaltered Anglo-Saxon churches in England. May have been founded by St. Aldhelm. St Mary's Priory: Deerhurst, Gloucestershire, England 7th century Anglo-Saxon church. Part of the Diocese of Gloucester. St Mary the Virgin Church: Prittlewell, Essex, England Pre-conquest (pre-1066) north wall, incorporating probably 7th century ...
The church was designed by J. Medland Taylor for Albert Hudson Royds, a local banker and prominent Freemason. It is constructed in sandstone with tiled roofs, at a cost of £28,000. The church has a cruciform plan with a tower at the crossing. It is notable for its combination of Gothic Revival architectural features with symbols of Freemasonry ...
The legally defined object of the Trust is "the preservation, in the interests of the nation and the Church of England, of churches and parts of churches of historic and archaeological interest or architectural quality vested in the Fund ... together with their contents so vested". [2] The charity cares for over 350 churches. [1]
The National Churches Trust is a registered charity. The full definition of its objectives and activities are "to promote the conservation, repair, maintenance, improvement, and reconstruction of churches (to mean any recognised Christian places of worship, chapel or meeting house in the UK), and of such monuments, fittings, stained glass, furniture, organs, bells, in such churches and to ...
This is a list of former monastic buildings in England that continue in use as parish churches or chapels of ease.. Bath Abbey. Nearly a thousand religious houses (abbeys, priories and friaries) were founded in England and Wales during the medieval period, accommodating monks, friars or nuns who had taken vows of obedience, poverty and chastity; each house was led by an abbot or abbess, or by ...