Digital Parish Sources
This page features:
- Archival and written resources in digital format
- Audio resources
- Visual and material resources
Archival and written resources
(in digital format; for printed materials see 鈥樷)
- '' [Documents relating to the visitation of parishes in Brandenburg-Ansbach] (1528/29; Staatsarchiv N眉rnberg, Fsm. Ansbach, Religionsakten 8)
- : pilot project providing digitized versions of a sample of eight registers, together with technical reports (full data capture planned)
- : an online guide to the parish sources of Ardchattan in west Scotland.
- '' [Reports on the parishes of the district of Landshut by officials of the Bavarian duchy] (1524; Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, GR Fasz. 622 Nr. 285)
- Bischofszell (Thurgovia / Switzerland): Quellen zu Kirche und Gesellschaft in der Di枚zese Konstanz, vornehmlich aus dem einstigen Bestand des Niederstifts St. Pelagius in Bischofszell, 1400–1530 (2022) [= by Dorothee Rippmann complementing her print monograph Fr枚mmigkeit in der Kleinstadt: Jenseitsf眉rsorge, Kirche und st盲dtische Gesellschaft in der Di枚zese Konstanz 1400-1530, Z眉rich; Chronos, 2022, featuring anniversary books, liturgical texts, statutes and charters]
- (2 books, 1577), transcribed and translated by Evelyn Voelker: the Archbishop of Milan鈥檚 guide to the arrangement and liturgical furnishings of churches for visitations of his diocese
- Bra艧ov [Kronstadt] in Transylvania / Central Romania: digitization of the [Archiv und Bibliothek der Honterusgemeinde], including images of documents like charters, parish registers, books, mandates etc from the 14-17thC; made available online as part of the British Library's ''
- : a searchable catalogue of more than 14,000 cause papers relating to cases heard between 1300 and 1858 in the Church Courts of the diocese of York. The original records – the most extensive records of their type in the United Kingdom – are held in the Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York. The catalogue contains basic information (people, places, type, keywords) about each case, allowing searches for e.g. 鈥減arish鈥, 鈥渃hurchwarden鈥 in specific places and periods etc.
- Church Book of St Ewen's, Bristol: digital version of Masters, Betty R. & Ralph, Elizabeth (eds), The Church Book of St Ewen鈥檚 Bristol, 1454-1584 (Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Records Section, Vol. VI, 1967) [contains churchwardens' accounts, inventories, list of benefactors, various memoranda and a calendar of deeds: , , ]
- : The Sussex Records Society's publication of material from the Deposition Books of the Archdeaconry of Chichester (Ep. I/11) for the period 1557-1694 (some 22 volumes), together with associated material for the peculiars of Chichester (Ep. III/5 - 3 volumes covering 1607-77), and Pagham and Tarring (Ep. IV/3 -2 volumes covering 1611-1661), to be supplemented by stray depositions to be found in Ep. I/15 and elsewhere is nearing completion. The project was initiated by Peter Wilkinson, Vice-President of the Society and former Deputy County Archivist of West Sussex, and continued by Kim Fleming and Linda Robertson.
- : 'In partnership with several local authority and university archives in Scotland, National Records of Scotland (NRS) look after the records of Scotland's presbyterian church courts.The records consist of the minutes and accounts of kirk sessions, presbyteries, synods and the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. They also contain a wide variety of other documents, providing a picture of everyday life in Scotland from the sixteeenth century onwards and amount to more than 25,000 volumes, about 5 million pages of information. We plan to begin making church court records available online in 2017, following the re-launch of the ScotlandsPeople website in 2016. We anticipate that it will take a significant time to upload the full range of kirk session, presbytery, synod and General Assembly records for the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, which amount to more than 20,000 volumes. Researchers will have the choice of accessing the records free of charge in various Scottish archives, or using the subscription service.'
- : compilation of medieval ecclesiastical sources from 鈥楳edieval English Genealogy鈥
- : a guide leaflet compiled by the Borthwick Institute for Archives, York.
- : with information on names mentioned in the sources
- : transcript by William Holland ed. by J. J. Raven (London: Jarrold & Sons, 1895)
- Churchwardens鈥 Accounts of St Mary鈥檚, Gries, a rural parish near Bozen/Bolzano (South Tyrol, Northern Italy):Start of
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The original documents – previously in the possession of the Drechsel-Mayr family – are now held in theS眉dtiroler Landesarchiv / Archivio Provinciale di Bolzano. of the two passages. Excerpts kindly submitted and transcribed by Hannes Obermair of the Stadtarchiv Bozen / Archivio Storico Citt谩 di Bolzano.
- : transcript by W. A. Scott Robertson for Kent Archaeological Society)
- Churchwardens' Accounts of St Peter's, Ipswich, 1563-1664: transcript of BL Add.MS. 25344 compiled by A. S. & R. D. Wolfe for the Suffolk History Society and held by the 鈥溾
- Churchwardens鈥 Accounts of St Mary at Hill, London, 1477-79, in: Henry Littlehales (ed.), The Medieval Records of aLondon City Church (St. Mary at Hill) A.D. 1420-1559, Early English Text Society, original series 125 (1904), 76-92 [excerpts featured on ; full transcription together with copious other records from the parish on ]
- : compiled by David Postles, Northampton University

Manuscripts of the Bibliothek des Geistlichen Ministeriums, an early modern parish library, in the Dom of St Nikolai at Greifswald / Germany. Photo: BK.
- Churchwardens' Accounts of St Mary, Reading: Garry, Francis N.A. & G. A. (eds), (Reading, 1893)
- : site includes an introduction and extracts from 1433-1538 translated by Katherine French
- : edited by Cecil T. Davis
- , extract for the year 1546, transcribed and by Christopher Webb, Borthwick Institute for Archives, York. For the printed edition of this set of accounts for the period 1518-48 see the 鈥楶arish Bibliography鈥.
- 鈥樷: a collaborative project funded by the AHRC and bringing together scholars from King鈥檚 College London, the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of Reading. Its objective is to create a relational database documenting the careers of all Church of England clergymen between 1540 and 1835
- : featuring testimony offered in the main church court of the diocese of London, an ecclesiastical jurisdiction that included the medieval city of London itself and its rural hinterland of Essex, Middlesex, and parts of Hertfordshire; projected over the next several years to present all the surviving medieval (pre-1500) records of litigation in this court (about 1100 depositions and examinations altogether), both in transcription of the original Latin of the documents and in modern English translation..
- : geneaological society with information on parish records from Cornwall
- : a digital edition of 80 fully transcribed depositions relating to 20 cases heard in the church courts and Quarter Sessions between 1556 and 1694 across Devon, Hampshire, Somerset and Wiltshire. These depositions or witness statements, collated by the 'Women's Work in Rural England' project, relate to a range of crimes and offences tried in these two types of courts, from defamation to theft and are rich in detail of social, economic, political and religious life in early modern England.
- (project based at the University of East Anglia)
- (this project based at Ume氓 University provides access to 18th and 19thC Swedish parish records)
- : web database of Latin and German inscriptions in German German-speaking Europe up to 1650 (with illustrations, transcriptions and commentary). To retrieve hundreds of inscriptions from churches enter 鈥渒irche鈥 under 鈥淪uchworte鈥 on the . The findings of this large-scale research project are also available in a series of volumes dedicated to specific regions and towns.
- : compiled in the aftermath of the Jacobite Atterbury plot and containing some 25,000 names (with a parish index and general introduction to the document; prepared by the Friends of Devon鈥檚 Archives)
- : joint website (in German) of a number of projects featuring an exhibition module (a series of documents relating to key reformers / themes / events), digital versions of pamphlets (deriving from Eisenach/Thuringian collections), various printings of the Saxon visitation handbook of 1528 (together with manuscripts informing its compilation 1525-27) and a large online collection of visitation records from the Reformation era (accessible in digital copies)
- (portal to worldwide collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts from c. 800 to 1500, with selected colour images. Project directed by Margaret Bent, Julia Craig-McFeeley and Andrew Wathay)
- : an online 'resource for historians, theologians, political scientists, and sociologists studying the religious and social upheavals of the 16th and 17th centuries, the Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation gives researchers immediate, Web-based access to an extensive range of seminal works from the Reformation and post-Reformation eras', featuring 845 titles by 277 authors.
- William Dowsing: The Journal (iconoclasm in 1640s Cambs and Suffolk) : ;
- '': project hosted by the British Library dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage and making it available to as wide an audience as possible. Collection includes parish documents from Africa, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Transylvania (Romania) and other regions
- : following legislation to reform the English parish clery (esp. to restrict absenteeism and economic activities like holding leases), anyone who chose to inform on/prosecute offending clerics could gain the penalties imposed on them by the royal courts. Collection of photographs of relevant cases compiled by Robert C. Palmer at the University of Houston (for context and explanation see his Selling the Church).
- : databases of religious houses, properties and archives compiled by a research team led by Maureen Jurkowski and Nigel Ramsay at UCL. This guide to one of the largest sets of medieval documents includes extensive evidence on parishes appropriated by religious houses.
- : searchable transcriptions of hundreds of petitions submitted to a range of regional and national authorities in England from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including many requests for poor relief, suppression of alehouses etc.
- : a database of Jewish epigraphy - provides the inventory, documentation, editions and presentation of epigraphical collections. Currently online are available 188 digital editions with 34536 epitaphs (65970 image files).
- : free database of genealogical information, drawn from parish registers and other local sources, provided by 鈥楾he Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints鈥
- '': 'a SSHRC-funded project to create an open-access, group-sourced, comprehensive, fully searchable, online bibliographic database of early modern (1530-1715) sermon manuscripts from the British Isles and North America. The database is a finding aid for all types of manuscripts related to sermons, including complete sermons, sermon notes and reports of sermons, held in numerous repositories in the UK, Ireland, the USA and Canada. GEMMS endeavours to make manuscript sermons more accessible for a wide variety of researchers, to encourage research on manuscript sermons and to provide a forum for the development of an online community of sermon scholars'.
- : provides access to and publishes the written records concerned with the Church of the Holy Roman Empire; also features a digital index of persons and a database of monasteries
- : compiled inventories and digital versions of documents relating to the borough and St Nectan鈥檚 church of Hartland (North Devon) from 1400 to the present day, including parish registers (from 1558), churchwardens鈥 accounts (from 1597), lay subsidy / hearth tax evidence, the Protestation Roll of 1643, tithe / poor relieve materials, manorial and family archives etc. This introduction by Stephen Hobbs describes the holdings, their historical context and the various bodies supporting the project [information updated August 2011]
- : reference work for the (Catholic) church institutions of Switzerland - dioceses, monasteries and chapters (in German / French / Italian)
- Herbert George, A priest to the temple: or the country parson鈥檚 character, and rule of holy life, (4th edn, London, 1701) [online at ]
- : are an important starting point for anyone interested in the archaeology, built heritage, and history of an area in England. They can provide information on a wide variety of buildings and sites, from finds of prehistoric flint tools to medieval castles and Second World War pillboxes. HERs contain details on local archaeological sites and finds, historic buildings and historic landscapes and are regularly updated, with information held in a database with a digital mapping system.
- with a Gazetteer and Metadata: produced by R.J.P. Kain and held by the 鈥淯K Data Service鈥 (cf. also the related )
- (Italy): with information on holdings, parish history and relevant secondary sources.
- : adultery case Winter vs Petcher 1597-8 transcribed by Alan Roberts
- : currently being transcribed by Dave Postles up to 1520.
- (Germany): the 鈥淕esamtkatalog deutscher Leichenpredigten GESA鈥 provides a searchable catalogue of over 200,000 German funeral sermons compiled at the University of Marburg.
- (Wolfenb眉ttel): catalogue of nearly 10,000 funeral sermons preserved at the Herzog August Bibliothek at Wolfenb眉ttel.
- : a British History Online digitization project of 2526 early modern petitions (1573-1799) forming part of , run by historians from Birkbeck and University College London.
- : transcriptions and extracts of sources like churchwardens鈥 accounts, court rolls, bridgemasters鈥 accounts and parish registers (compiled by David Postles, Leicester University)
- : an on-line collection of objects, portraits, records, manuscripts, photographs, memories, and ephemera related to Lydiard Park in Wiltshire. Working with local residents, archives and authorities, as well as global institutions, the project is creating a digitized collection of Lydiard Park鈥檚 precious legacy. From early medieval times to its 17th and 18th century prosperity, and from dereliction in the forties, to its rescue and dedication to the people of Swindon, The Lydiard Archives tell of a rare heritage built on survival and tenacity. The website includes materials relating to the architecture and furnishings of and the .
- : a project directed by (Washington and Lee University) and (Newman University), initially exploring published resources like Hew Scott鈥檚 to trace clerics across early modern and modern Scotland and now increasingly also drawing on manuscript materials. [cf. this news / update notice from May 2020; check out their ]
- '': provides free access to digital images of numerous historical parish registers (碍颈谤肠丑别苍产眉肠丑别谤) of baptisms, marriages & deaths (Tauf-, Trauungs- & 厂迟别谤产别产眉肠丑别谤) from Austria (esp. Catholic dioceses of K盲rnten, Lower Austria, Salzburg, Styria, Tyrol, Upper Austria, Vorarlberg [see e.g. , from 1585] & Vienna) and Germany (esp. Catholic dioceses of Hildesheim, Magdeburg, M眉nchen-Freising [see e.g. , 1675-], M眉nster, Osnabr眉ck, Paderborn and Passau), with selected sets also from Bosnia-Herzegowina, Luxemburg and Serbia (with map and place search facility)
- : Europe's virtual charters archive, featuring some 500'000 medieval and early modern documents from 60 repositories in 10 countries
- : digitization resource provided by the Archives Nationales d'Outre-Mer
- 鈥樷: online inventory of parochial and parsons' books preserved for four Roman Catholic dioceses (P艂ock, Vilnius, Krak贸w and Che艂m) and the Che艂m Greek Catholic diocese from the late eighteenth century. It has been compiled by Stanis艂aw Witecki at the Jagiellonian University in Krak贸w/Poland and allows searches by author and place. Additions & related collections of books are welcome.
- : ecclesiastical court cases compiled by David Postles
- : site includes transcriptions & studies of village records (manor court, wills, religious censuses, overseers accounts etc)
- : vast collection of primary resources/e-books relating to the development of theology (ca. 16th-18th c.), compiled by the Henry C. Meeter Center for Calvin Studies, Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary. Features e-versions of works by theologians of all major denominations and additional resources (Bibles, correspondence, secondary materials).
- (searchable database compiled by David Postles, Leicester University)
- : links to online resources compiled by 鈥楳edieval English Genealogy鈥
- '': online presence of an international research collaboration that is establishing for the first time the context from which the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries grew; with search facility and associated print publication series, collating evidence for dramatic activity (much of it from parish records) on a county-by-county basis
- : web platform of the Newberry Library at Chicago, exploring 'how religion and print challenged authority, upended society, and made the medieval world modern'; offers access to (especially 17thC Italian) broadsheets, a manuscript transcription crowdsourcing initiative, a gallery exhibition and project blog
- : includes information on sources for churches (compiled by Jean Manco)
- '': collated by Chris Langley to aid identification of hands
- : 'is pleased to announce the publication of a number of its backlist volumes as searchable Ebooks through our online partner, TannerRitchie Publishing. This is an exciting area of publishing and one which is relatively unexplored for learned societies, and we hope that the project will improve access to our work for scholars and generate interest in the Society and its purpose. The Society intends to publish all backlist volumes in copyright in this way.' (publications include parish registers and kirk session / presbytery records)
- 鈥: 'Information about Parishioners, from Various Sources 1550 to 1650鈥 – this site directed by Alan H. Nelson & William Ingram provides access to transcriptions & commentary on a wide range of parish records (including overseers reports, token books, vestry minutes, wills and other documents)
- ': searchable edition of 17thC proceedings of the principal parish authorities (known as Stillstand) in the Canton of Zurich, consisting of pastors, wardens/elders plus secular village officials and dealing with a broad range of matters relating to church, schools, morals and poor relief.
- : draft online edition as part of the Map of Early Modern London projet
- 厂迟谤测辫别鈥檚 Survey of London (1720): online edition, which includes and see also the on 'Layers of London'
- : contains the valuation, plus related details, of the English and Welsh parish churches and prebends listed in the ecclesiastical taxation assessment of 1291-2 (J. H. Denton, Humanities Research Centre, University of Sheffield)
- : contains information taken from the tithe apportionments covering 糖心TVshire created in the mid 19th century following the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836
- : edition of the 'written records of the effort, by the officers of St Saviour parish, in the weeks preceding Easter each year, to require every head of household in the parish to purchase tokens for the Easter communion' (1571-1643)
- (e-resource provided by Nottinghamshire History)
- : compiled – with a parish index – by the Friends of Devon鈥檚 Archives
- (Italy), covering the late fifteenth to nineteenth centuries (1454-1900)
- : digitization of the entire archives of St Peter in Vienna, comprising manuscripts and (printed) books from the 18th century, in particular relating to the rebuilding of the church.
- (searchable database compiled by David Postles, Leicester University)
- Wills - , transcribed L. L. Duncan (list of testators with name/place index and selected transcriptions, provided by the Kent Archaeological Society)
Audio resources:
- Danish church music from the fragmentary 15thC Missale Danicum 1, as featured on 鈥楲iturgical Fragments from Denmark鈥 []
- English pre-Reformation parish music: John Taverner (English composer c. 1490-1545; active e.g. as lay clerk at the collegiate parish church of Tattershall , Lincs., in the 1520s and as a singer at St Botolph, Boston, in the late 1530s), Missa 鈥榃estern Wynde鈥, performed by Choir of New College, Oxford; Edward Higginbottom []
- English post-Reformation parish music: examples of psalm-singing and organ accompaniments recreated by the Dufay Collective for Christopher Marsh鈥檚 (Cambridge, 2010), audio CD, tracks nos 43-46, and of bell-ringing performed by the ringers of St Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, nos 47-48.
- German church music:
- Martin Luther (1483-1546): 16thC Lutheran music []
- Johann Sebastian Bach (German composer 1685-1750; cantor at the parish church of St Thomas, Leipzig, in the 1730s and 40s) []
- Greek church music performed by the Byzantine choir at Athens []
- 100 Ballads - top pop from seventeenth-century England: Broadside ballads were single-sheet songs that sold for a penny a piece. Find over 100 resoundingly successful examples that can be investigated through recordings, images and a wealth of other materials []
- Musicians and choirs specializing in late medieval and Renaissance church music:
- recordings by 鈥楾he Clerks鈥 Group [
- recordings by 鈥楾he Cardinall鈥檚 Musick鈥 []
- '': a website dedicated to the traditional social dance music of England – where it came from, where it went to, who it travelled with and where it is now (with details on pre-1850 publishers and transcriptions).

Table of benefactions for the poor of Thame (Oxon.) [Photo: BK]
Visual and material resources:
- : covering some 1600 windows and compiled by Cliff and Monica Robinson.
- '': contains mainly black and white photographs of English parish churches compiled since the early 1950s by Dr Donna Chaproniere & donated to the University of Leicester in 2008. Some of the photographs were used to publish English Parish Churches volume 1: East Anglia South by Phillip Lindley, Alex Moseley & Donna Chaproniere, published on CD-ROM by Brepols (2001).
- : images of English parish churches and cathedrals compiled by BBC History.
- 鈥楥hurch Heritage Record鈥: publicly accessible database due to be launched in spring 2015. Compiled by with the assistance of English Heritage, it will feature over 16,000 entries on church buildings in England (integrated with a Geographic Information System GIS), covering a wide variety of topics from architectural history and archaeology, to worship and the surrounding natural environment.
- '': website featuring a monument of the month, events and resources associated with tombs, effigies, carvings and other commemorative features
- '' on the LUNA image catalogue: this searchable database includes digital copies of over 12,000 church plans (and further details) submitted to the 鈥業ncorporated Church Building Society鈥 over the last 200 years (and kept at Lambeth Palace Library). Formerly online as the Church Plans Online database.
- '': access to wallpaintings, art & architecture of buildings in their care, in partnership with Google Arts & Culture
- : offers photographs of all parish churches (as well as many fonts and stained glass windows) in Cornwall. An interactive DVD is also available.
- : information on Cornish windows compiled by Joanna Mattingly and Michael Swift.
- '': a project seeking to determine if more historic fabric at Scotland鈥檚 parish churches of medieval foundation – whether still in use or abandoned – has survived than might appear on first sight
- 鈥樷: documents all surviving and known altarpieces within the present-day boundaries of the country; compiled by Sissel F. Plathe and Jens Bruun
- : co-ordinated by C. B. Newham, this project aims to obtain photographs of all rural churches (and some associated buildings) in England. By late 2011, the archive included 330,000 pictures, representing 70 per cent of the envisaged total. This presentation provides an impression of the range of buildings, furnishings and motives.
- : database and explanations relating to nearly 3000 individuals active in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland during the period; compiled by Robert Tittler at Concordia University.
- : compiled by David Postles (includes many pictures of parish churches and their interiors; )
- , supplied by the historical demographer A.E. Imhof (Berlin).
- '': database containing 39.000 digitized images of frescos and other painted ornamentation from churches, monasteries, castles and other buildings in Germany, Austria, Poland and Russia (dating from the 10th to 19thC, searchable by places/artists and hosted by the 'Zentralinstitut f眉r Kunstgeschichte' in Munich)
- : website of Heritage technology specialists developing virtual reconstructions for the interactive 鈥淧arish Church鈥 DVD published by the initiative. Sample materials include York's and .
- (Denmark): Video presentation by Axel Bolvig - the same page contains films on various aspects of Danish wall paintings and a paper on the delivered at the Courthauld in 2009
- : website / phone app allowing the rediscovery of Renaissance Florence through the eyes of a contemporary; among other attractions, users can take a a virtual walk through the lost church of (into which the National Gallery's altarpiece of Jacobo di Cione has been inserted)
- : an Electronic Map of Boundaries before 1850 with a Gazetteer and Metadata
- : online collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Biblical artwork (from churches as well as other sources) compiled at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
- , entitled 'Ecclesia Endre dominica XVIII post trinitatis' (4 October 1450), directed by Christer Bj玫rkvall and introduced by Anders Piltz (1990)
- '': documented between c. 600 and 1400 CE in the current geographic boundaries of Europe; website and database maintained by Sarah Luginbill at the University of Colorado Boulder
- '', a site compiled by Anne Marshall (Open University)
- '': a site on related events, teaching activities and resources compiled by Ellie Pridgeon, who wrote her in England and Wales (c.1250-c.1525) at the University of Leicester. She has since been assisting Dr Miriam Gill with the Churches Conservation Trust Wall Painting project and worked as a consultant for various bodies, including English Heritage.
- 鈥樷: searchable database of French material culture (incl. objects, furnishings, religious images and other heritage items associated with parish churches) provided by the Ministry of Culture and Communicatrion (click on link 鈥渕obilier鈥 and then 鈥渞echerche experte鈥 in the left-hand menu to start searches)
- : online images compiled by 鈥楳edieval English Genealogy鈥
- : go on a 3D virtual tour of a church in Essex - featuring a timber-framed tower, 16thC north porch, 18thC box pews, wall painting fragments, Creed / Lord's Prayer inscriptions, graffiti etc - declared redundant in 1970, since restored by the and digitized in conjunction with .
- '', hosted by the Courtauld Institute, provides a vast and internationally important archive, comprising records of all known British medieval wall paintings as well as extensive material on post-medieval schemes of painted decoration.
- : online collection of church images from the dioceses of Cambrai, Le Mans and Schleswig produced in the course of a research project based at Oxford Brookes (searchable by parish and subject).
- started at the Medieval Research Centre at Leicester University, featuring parish churches (e.g. Beverley, Fotheringay, Lavenham, 糖心TV etc), cathedrals, vernacular architecture etc dating from medieval and early modern times (compiled by David Postles and freely downloadable for academic purposes)
- : illustrations and commentary, e.g. on the late Middle Ages and Reformation period, provided by the 'Christianity and Culture' project at the University of York. CD-version of the project includes a 3D-reconstruction of the parish church of St Mary, Thirsk, on the eve of the Reformation.
- : materials from an exhibition
- : launched in 2014 by C.B Newham and to tackle the lack of comprehensive catalogues or academic literature on the painting corpus, which is extremely extensive. Focusing on murals in English churches between 1559 and 1836, the project aims to document, research and publish on these visual sources.
- : virtual exhibition (under the auspices of ArtRefo) presenting images and objects from the collections of museums across Europe that testify to the richness and variety of post-Reformation visual and material culture. Here portraits and visual satires from both Lutheran and Reformed contexts are juxtaposed with objects as diverse as enamel plates, liturgical textiles and communion vessels.
- : 450 images illustrating religion and society in late medieval Scotland, taken from manuscripts, incunabula and early printed books in Edinburgh University Library
- 鈥樷: searchable church wall paintings database compiled by Miriam Gill
- : searchable online catalogue/database of work from the fourteenth century to the present day, compiled under the auspices of the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies by Martin Crampin.
- : information and teaching resources relating to the reconstruction of late medieval wall paintings (Doom, Dance of Death, Holy Cross legend) in a collaborative project of historians, archaeologists and Heritage Technology Limited.
- : provides access to some 19,000 pictures of artworks (sculptures, paintings, fonts etc) from Swedish churches, searchable by region/place, material, topic and museum (in Swedish).
- : 16th century wall paintings (by Vincenzo de Barberis) and wood sculptures of the Chiesa della Santissima Trinit脿 [Holy Trinity Chapel] in the parish of S. Nicol貌, Valfurva.
- Wallpaintings in Danish churches are featured in these two extensive online resources: (where reproductions can be obtained for commercial and other purposes) and (under the auspices of the Danish National Museum), both with search functions

Somewhat against the spirit of the Laudian reforms (aiming to re-enhance the 鈥榖eauty of holiness鈥 through moving altars to the east wall of chancels and demarcating them by means of a rail), the parishioners of St Andrew, Lyddington (Rutland), railed their communion table on all four sides (left). The work was carried out in 1635 under the supervision of the vicar, Richard Rudd, and the churchwardens, Kenolm Fowler and Nicholas Jordan (initials on the right). Photos: BK.