If you are as enthusiastic as I am about Churches and Cathedrals, then enjoy some of their images from these pages.

I am happy to host any photos you may have (giving you the credit) if you want to share them with others - just drop me an email (click here) and we can take it from there. It would be great to have photos of all the churches mentioned in the books, "England's Thousand Best Churches" by Simon Jenkins and "Parish Churches as Works of Art" by Alec Clifton-Taylor - but I'm too old and will never get around to seeing even half of them.

Parish Churches

As you move your mouse over the bright yellow counties on the map, it will change to a hand, then click to get a list of all the lovely Parish Churches (mentioned in the above books) in that county and from that list you can click on those with a link to view the images.

Unfortunately this map, and subsequent lists, will be very sparse, but it will grow in time.

Some churches have been photographed in detail and contain many images, but others just have a few images and so have been grouped together in 'album' pages.

Those churches which show detailed images (that you can zoom and pan around) may take a wee while to load - but be patient as the final image is well worth the wait.

You can download the whole spreadsheet (with embedded links) here. or you can view all counties in one list here.

Cathedrals

click here to see all of these
(or click an individual cathedral)

Chester
Bristol
Durham
Ely
Exeter
Ripon
Salisbury
Wells
Winchester

Normandy churches

Bayeux Cathedral
Coutances Cathedral (very special)
Mont St Michel Abbey
Parish Church, Avaranches
St Leonard, Fougeres
St Malo's Church, Dinan
St Sauveur's Church, Dinan

Rome churches

click here for these including
San Giovanni in Laterano
Santa Maria Maggiore
Santa Prassede
St. Peter's Basilica

Toulouse churches

click here for these including
Basilique St Sernin
Les Jacobins
Cathedrale St Etienne - 2 churches joined at the hip!
Chapelle du Carmel

	My school church !

In may interest you, if you are a photographer, how I take photos of churches. Basically because of the dynamic range (very light and dark areas), it is generally not possible to capture everything in a single exposure, especially stained glass windows. So I take 3 photos at -2ev, 0ev and +2ev and then combine them to pick the detail from the best shot. If you have Photoshop (or other software) and this interests you, then drop me a line and I'll show you how I do it.

Berkshire ALDWORTH St Mary
Berkshire ASHAMPSTEAD St Clements
Berkshire BISHAM All Saints
Berkshire GREAT SHEFFORD St Mary
Berkshire LAMBOURN St Michael
Berkshire LANGLEY MARISH St Mary
Berkshire MAPLEDURAM St Margaret
Berkshire NEWBURY St Nicolas
Berkshire SWALLOWFIELD All Saints
Berkshire WELFORD St Gregory
Devon COCKINGHAM St George & St Mary
Devon CULLOMPTON St Andrews
Devon OTTERY ST MARY St Mary
Essex FAIRSTEAD St Mary
Essex WALTHAM ABBEY Holy Cross
Gloucestershire BRISTOL St Mary, Redcliffe
Hampshire BOARHUNT St Nicholas
Hampshire CORHAMPTON not dedicated
Hampshire WINCHESTER St Cross
Hampshire WINCHESTER St Swithun-upon-Kingsgate
Leicestershire BOTTESFORD St Mary the Virgin
Oxfordshire DORCHESTER Abbey of St Peter & St Paul
Oxfordshire EWELME St Mary
Somerset BRUTON St Mary
Somerset CROSCOMBE St Mary
Somerset MARTOCK All Saints
Somerset SELWORTHY All Saints