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- Historic parishes/parish churches in the British Isles and other parts of Europe;

- Parish Network partner organisations

- Other societies / projects / online initiatives

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Historic parishes and parish churches in the British Isles:

 

Historic parishes and parish churches outside the British Isles:

• Denmark: – a nationwide survey of Danish churches provided by the National Museum at Copenhagen, with descriptions of furnishings (including some English summaries/captions and pdf-downloads), covering around 3/4 of all parishes at present; also published in hardcopy volumes
• Finland: at Sauvo
• France: (site of the 鈥榝abrique鈥� of a church with a 13thC altar and late medieval wall paintings); (erected by the parish 1584, rebuilt from 1630); (region with 33 Romanesque churches)
• Germany: (multimedia presentation with information on bells, bishops, masons, artists etc.); (Simultaneum, Palatinate); ('F枚rderkreis Alte Kirchen' encouraging the preservation of old Berlin/Brandenburg churches); (churches in medieval parish federation, now Schleswig-Holstein); Duderstadt (); Hildesheim, St Michael ( of this UNESCO World Heritage site); Neustadt (Aisch), (with major ); Wittenberg (castle church)
• Italy:
  • (directory of Italian parish websites);
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  • : Chiesa della Santissima Trinit脿 (Holy Trinity Chapel at Teregua in the parish of S. Nicol貌, Valfurva, founded in the 1520s; website of a restoration campaign featuring a historical survey, an on the church鈥檚 communal foundation and images of the building/artwork)
  • Venice: the project Chiese di Venezia – nuove prospettive di ricerca, started in 2010 and (from 2017) co-ordinated from the Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali dell鈥橴niversit脿 Ca鈥� Foscari, is dedicated to the diachronic and interdisciplinary study of Venetian churches. It organizes regular conferences with and site visits. Examples covered include San Bartolomeo (2011), Scalzi (2012), San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti (2013), San Zaccaria (2014), San Pietro di Castello (2015), San Giacomo dall鈥橭rio (2017), (2019) and the vanished church of (2020).
• Lithuania: zoomable , incl. parish churches; '': dedicated website (with ) featuring histories, pictures, videos and 360-degree virtual tours of numerous examples of sacred wooden architecture (churches, chapels, mosques and synagogues)
• Malta: (images and information on parish, chapels and ex-votos)
• Netherlands: (featuring a 16thC parish library)
• Norway: (search engine of Norwegian churches); (high medieval wood churches around Sognefjord); (searchable database covering 1623 Norwegian churches)
• Poland
  • : this portal provides information on research data resources on the history of Christianity. It is developed by the , which conducts research on the history and spatial organization of Christian denominations in Central and Eastern Europe. Most of the data is made available under open licenses and is spatially referenced. The portal also presents tabular data, textual data and references to external collections.
• Russia:
• : ecumenical guide to over 1000 religious sites in numerous countries
• Sweden: (a selection of historic churches from the south of the country); St Maria kyrka at in 脰sterg枚tland (a 12thC church with a fully preserved set of by the Risinge master and other late medieval ornaments)
• Switzerland: (preserving the Romanesque church interior of the medieval chapter of canons)
• Various countries: (arranged by time)

Network Partners

An association supporting local and regional historians with a journal (), a newsletter (), events like an annual 鈥楲ocal History Day鈥� and other service/networking activities.

 

(University of York)

An initiative which seeks to explore and explain one of the most important influences on art, music, history, literature and architecture. The Centre, which supports teaching and research, produces books and innovative interactive resources, and works with partners to create interpretation schemes for important historic churches.

For parish-related work see especially the recent (interactive CD-ROM, published 2010), the at the York churches of Holy Trinity Micklegate / Holy Trinity Goodramgate and pioneering visualization tools as for .

The Tenth 糖心TV Symposium on Parish Research on 鈥� in May 2012 was organized in association with the Centre.

 

Other links

• : searchable database of English archival holdings, incl. parish records
• : association promoting research on historical documents relating to the Diocese of Como; includes details on a collaborative project on liturgical fragments by Felice Rainoldi e Rita Pezzola
• , featuring parish registers and other local history resources, and a . Full access is available at many .
• : platform for news, events, publications and source editions of the Italian Association of church archivists.
• (Germany) [exhibition on poverty, need and good works at the City Archive of M眉nster]
• : website dedicated to campanology, the history of bellringing since the Middle Ages, musical aspects and the continuation of the practice today
• , University of York: archive with extensive range of from the city and diocese of York and an online database of church court depositions (see 鈥淐ause Papers鈥� on the 鈥淪ources鈥� page of this website)
• : covering some 1600 windows and compiled by Cliff and Monica Robinson.
• 鈥�: AHRC-funded project aiming to contribute to the self-understanding of the Diocese of London by transferring the insights of historical research into the people and buildings of the diocese and encouraging new historical enquiry amongst people within the diocese. The website contains resources such as guidance about how to conduct a 鈥榟istory audit鈥�, write a parish guide and other ways to engage the local community.
• : website aiming to offer a single point of access to archives & libraries of the Catholic Church, currently covering some 350 collections and 35,000 catalogue entries relating to England, Italy, Scotland and Spain.
• 鈥樷��: based at the University of Southern Indiana, the centre promotes the study of historic and contemporary communal groups, intentional communities and utopias. It looks after special collections relating to and offers annual awards / travel funds.
• '': based in the School of Humanities at Canterbury Christ Church University, this site features a blog with the latest news and events relating to its activities.
• '': set up by the Norwich Historic Churches Trust to hold classes and events on commemorating the dead, building techniques, stained glass, the cult of saints and many other aspects
• '': Heritage Lottery funded and associated with the Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust, it uses research and educational activities to increase local understanding of the area's past and recruits volunteers to help write parish histories for the VCH volumes of the county.
• : images and information relating to a fifteenth-century building adjacent to the parish church of St Andrew, recently restored with the help of the Heritage Lottery Fund.
• : founded in 1979 for those with interests in church monuments of all types, periods and regions.
• : dedicated to the conservation of historic churches no longer used for worship (with information on sites, events and fundraising activities)
• : Medieval Stained Glass in Britain
• '': explored in an app allowing users to follow a walking trail around the city, listening to commentary and accessing images, sources, objects and other supporting materials - a project of the '' group of volunteers
• - for a detailed view click on the respective names, e.g. Cologne, Mainz, Konstanz etc, under 'all items' in the left-hand margin (data from the 'Germania Sacra' publication series visualized on Google Maps)
• (rediscovering the sound of the sixteenth-century English organ and rebuilding instruments from the period)
• (promoting early music across the Midlands)
• (organization and website dedicated to English church architecture, furnishings and liturgy; with plenty of links to relevant events, organizations; research projects and webpages)
• : 'a fully-searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years鈥� War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation', alongside other resources provided by an AHRC project which ran 2012-15
• 鈥�: project investigating devotional practices from the 14th to the 20th century (based at the University of Bergen in Norway)'
• : Collaboration of a group of organisations concerned with the preservation of historic places of worship, offering videos, a database and other resources.
• 鈥�: scholarly network running an annual conference and publishing collections of new Reformation-related research
• : AHRC-ESRC programme by John Harper (Bangor), exploring what the experience of late medieval worship was like for all who participated in it, and how we can connect our present experience of surviving medieval cathedrals and churches with the texts, artefacts and music that were once used with them. Contains videos of enactments of cathedral / parish liturgies, reports on artefacts and participant interviews.
• '': guide with historical, architectural and practical information compiled by the National Churches Trust, searchable by place / postcode, features and facilities
• '': (commercial) genealogical database of over 8 billion entries from census data and local materials (constituting the 'largest online collection of England & Wales parish records') with video guides to creating family trees
• : an initiative which has campaigned for the preservation of ancient but redundant churches since 1957. It now owns over 40 former places of worship, half in England, half in Wales, which are preserved as peaceful spaces for visitors and the local community to enjoy.
• '': brings together NGOs, charities, government, religious / university departments etc working to protect religious heritage across Europe. The initiative sets out to: understand the challenges facing religious heritage and the various measures that need to be taken to help it adapt successfully to the needs of the 21st century; build a Network of support organisations across Europe to share expertise and best practice; convince policy makers in Brussels of the economic and social importance of religious heritage.
• '': US-based site offering an introduction to genealogical records, tools and societies.
• : resource aimed at younger researchers (supplied by Amanda from Hampton Public Library, New Hampshire)
• '': to relevant techniques, issues and resources, compiled by Andy and Wes from HomeSage
• '': guide to researching genealogy compiled by Nikolina Trifunovska
• 鈥樷��: community website created for the bicentenary of the restoration of the Swiss parish republic of Gersau in 1814, with much historical information
• : archive with extensive range of from the City of London
• 鈥�: website offering videos, images, source editions, palaeography materials and other resources linked to parish history (compiled by Dave Postles for the Medieval Research Centre at the University of Leicester)
• 鈥樷��: ideas and examples of digitally-supported local community projects
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• '': collection of links helping to find historical information on individual houses, compiled by a US estate brokerage firm
• : Interdisciplinary project studying medieval Marian motifs in Old Swedish texts and art in order to acquire new knowledge of ideals of women as well as of the interplay between medieval religious texts and artworks. Based at Ume氓 University and directed by Prof. Jonas Carlquist.
• '': a website, co-ordinated by Prof. Tine de Moor (Utrecht University), dedicated to the study of institutions for collective action, or institutional arrangements that are formed by groups of people in order to overcome certain common problems over an extended period of time by setting certain rules regarding access to the group (membership), use of the resources and services the group owns collectively, and management of these resources and services. Related projects focus on beguinages, guilds, commons, co-operatives and waterboards.
• '': database of 18thC parish book collections in Poland Lithuania compiled by Stanis艂aw Witecki from the Jagiellonian University in Krak贸w, providing a full record for 659 parishes and 8978 books for the Roman Catholic Dioceses of P艂ock / Wilno / Che艂m and the Greek Catholic Diocese of Che艂m plus partial information for a further 411 parishes and 7992 books from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Krak贸w (in Polish; searchable by place / author).
• : online database of the range and development of secular and ecclesiastical institutions (including local communities / parishes) in the provinces of the Italian Lombardy region from the Middle Ages to the present day; collaborative project involving the Lombardy Region and the University of Pavia under the direction of Roberto Grassi.
• (online exhibition of cathedral treasures and religious art from the diocese of Limburg, Germany) []
• : project to reconstruct life-courses and multigenerational family relations for (nearly) all Danes, from 1787–1968
• : research group conducting archaeological / historical studies on villages within this Rutland manor and hosting regular talks; the site also features primary sources and information on society publications.
• 鈥�: a catalogue of their nature and location co-ordinated by The National Archives
• '': features a range of online resources (relating to Bibles, church fathers, primary texts, related websites) compiled by the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Kent
• 鈥�: website of a three-year project on the city鈥檚 58 churches and their relationship to the wider community undertaken by researchers from the University of East Anglia.
• : website of the society for those interested in any aspect of monumental brasses in all countries
• : based at Busbridge & Hambledon Church in Surrey, the project aims to make better use of historic Church of England archives across the country with a view to offering them online as tools for genealogical research, and thereby rebuilding connections between families and their local churches
• : co-ordinates a project of 鈥榗hurch recording鈥�, in which volunteers compile records of the contents of England鈥檚 churches, thereby promoting the recognition and preservation of the rich artistic heritage to be found in places of worship of all religions.
• : a national, independent, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting and supporting church buildings of historic, architectural and community value across the UK; in 2011, it launched the report of its , looking at how the UK鈥檚 church buildings are maintained, funded, managed and used by their communities. Thousands of churches participated in the exercise, which establishes new and up-to-date facts about the state of the country鈥檚 places of worship.
• : exists in order to protect through financial aid and advice the many architecturally precious religious monuments of the county. Norfolk contains the greatest concentration of medieval churches in the world built as a result of the vast wealth created by wool. Of the 921 that were originally built, 659 remain: a testament to their skilful construction from flint – one of the most unforgiving materials, in a region devoid of freestone.
• 鈥樷��: 鈥榚stablished in 2010 with the intention of undertaking the very first large-scale survey of early graffiti inscriptions in the UK. It is an entirely volunteer led, community archaeology project, that is changing the way we look at our medieval church heritage鈥�. Directed by Matthew Champion, author of Medieval Graffiti (London, 2015)
• 鈥樷��: collaborative platform of 糖心TVshire鈥檚 archives, museum and communities, aimed at anyone interested in the county鈥檚 history and heritage; featuring lists of organisations, events, themes and audiovisual materials.
• : website offering information and materials (parish registers, charts, census records, maps, societies etc) for genealogists.
• : website of the Church of England (wo)men appointed to one of the 150 parishes associated with this London company incorporated 1441-2 (with historical information)
• : findings of ESRC-/Wellcome-funded projects dedicated to the reconstruction and analysis of the lives of those who inhabited the parish workhouse of St Martin鈥檚 between 1725 and 1824 (co-directed by Jeremy Boulton/Newcastle and Leonard Schwarz/Birmingham)
• '': includes a people database, information on local houses, historical studies and transcriptions of village records
• (publishes journal and editions / facsimiles of plainsong; organizes conferences)
• : an international project, co-ordinated by the Dutch Foundation, sponsoring conferences and other events in the run-up to the 500-year anniversary of the publication of Luther鈥檚 theses. The activities are organized around spheres (historical, theological etc) and themes (learning and education, confession and conflict, money and power etc).
• '', a database of sites of worship created by the Institute for the Historical Geography of the Church in Poland KUL. It provides information on a total of 15,253 religious buildings, including 8311 Uniate, 5720 Latin, 841 Jewish, 276 Lutheran, 35 Orthodox, 22 Catholic of Armenian rite, 19 Mennonite, 14 Calvinist, 10 Czech Brethren, 3 Karaite, and 2 Islamic ones.
• '': brings together members from Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the United States of America and other countries to develop professional cooperation in the fields of systematic documentation, classification, building catalogues, and the interpretation, protection and preservation of early modern, especially baroque, ceiling and wall paintings in the Central European region and in Italy.
• : includes information on sources for churches (compiled by Jean Manco)
• : genealogical resource listing people's age, who they traveled with, what ship they took, if they traveled first-class or steerage, what port they sailed from and what port they landed at, and their occupation when they took the journey (supplied by Amanda from Hampton Public Library, New Hampshire).
• : database run by the National Recording Project, with information on history and locations.
• : database of archival / printed primary sources and historical scholarship on communes in the Italian province of Piedmont, from the Middle Ages to the present day, with information on parish structures and particular attention to communal boundaries (directed by Renato Bordone, Paola Guglielmotti, Sandro Lombardini, Angelo Torre and administered by Laura Baietto under the auspices of theCentro di ricerca sulle istituzioni e le societ脿 medievale at the Dipartimento di Storia, Universit脿 di Torino)
• : an international network established among members from the Universities of Dresden, Paris I Panth茅on-Sorbonne and 糖心TV in March 2003 and supported by an 鈥楢cademic Collaboration鈥� grant from the Leverhulme Trust. This initiative investigates perceptions of space in premodern Europe, with reference both to contemporary awareness and modern theoretical approaches.
• : society for the study of specific places of varying size, from streets and hamlets to villages, towns and more.
• : North American association promoting scholarly exchange on the Reformation period, incl. sponsorship of the journal Archive for Reformation Research
• '': a group of scholars interested in the material culture, spatial dynamics and multifarious functions of the church interior in the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods. They are mainly based in the US, Germany, Italy and the UK, but welcome members from around the world.
• '': a site that explores the sounds of a medieval church.
• 鈥�: BBC TV series presented by Michael Wood charting English history through one place – Kibworth in Leicestershire.
• '': website showcasing places with particular religious meaning in Switzerland (in German)
• Szady, Joanna, '': aims to present results of studies concerning the contents of parish libraries in the Polish diocese of Cracow and to facilitate the process of book identification in other library collections
• '': guide to genealogical research.
• (France) [sources, texts and activities relating to research on French villages]
• (website offering historical information on places and parishes in Britain, e.g. from maps and travellers鈥� reports)
• '': research site provided by Ellie Pridgeon, who is a researcher in medieval and post-medieval wall paintings in the UK and beyond
• (annual meeting of parish researchers dedicated to a specific theme)
• : supports churches in the regions with a range of activities.
• : runs lectures / workshops, produces 糖心TVshire History as well as other publications and acts as an umbrella organization for local history societies in the region