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Point-to-Point
Footpath walks from church to church, on public rights of way. No route is published in this preview, because none has been walked and checked for it.
See the churchesMap showing every recorded church in the United Kingdom.
Lighting every recorded church
United Kingdom · OpenStreetMap
A page for every church.
Every Christian place of worship the map already knows, and a straight path for a gift. One church, Little Badminton, is written in full. The rest keep only what OpenStreetMap and Wikidata record.
The mission
One page, checked, for each church in the country.
The record
Dedication, fabric, and the story that can be sourced. A sentence without a citation does not go on the page. What cannot be verified is left out, or marked to be confirmed.
The map
Christian places of worship already drawn by OpenStreetMap, on free tiles, with the ODbL acknowledged. The globe turns, then settles on the United Kingdom.
The support
Alms, appeals, memories and grants, each kept apart. None of them takes money or a name in this preview.
Featured church
St Michael and All Angels, Little Badminton
An Anglican church in the civil parish of Hawkesbury, South Gloucestershire, listed at Grade I on 3 March 1961.1 It is early 13th century, restored in the 14th, with 19th-century windows on the north, and an overhanging timber bellcote at the west end rather than a tower.1,3
In the mid-1960s a film unit chose the village, found the church had no tower, and built one of scaffolding and fibreglass for the camera.7,8,9 The sources, and the photographs, are on the church page.
Read the church
The ground
The whole kingdom, one map
The globe above carries every recorded church. Search, denomination, and listed grade sit on the map page. Tiles are OpenFreeMap. No key.
Search the mapWhat a page can hold
Six rooms, none of them pretending to be finished.
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Lychgate
Consented memories, in three plain words: Christened here. Married here. A loved one rests here. The buttons on the church page do not store a name.
See the buttons03
Alms
A gift that goes straight to the church, through a regulated giving platform. The platform is not connected. The link is a placeholder.
Open the giving hub04
Collection Plate
A project appeal with a progress thermometer. The leaking roof below is an example, marked as such, and it is not a debt of this church.
See the example05
Bells
Impact, told with a before and an after. Photographs will be published only when a church supplies them and the licence is clear.
Two real photographs06
Vestry
The grants desk: what a church may ask for, what it was given, and what it still has to report. No round is open, and no award is invented.
Open VestryBells · example of the layout
Two photographs. Not a restoration.
Bells will show the effect of work, with a before and an after. These two pictures are licensed photographs of the same west end, taken in 2007 and 2011. No building work is claimed between them.
Collection Plate · example
Leaking roof, £500 needed
The words of the example. The church has not asked for this money here.
Example · not a live appeal
Treasurer preview · not verified
Leaking roof
An example of how a treasurer would describe a nave-roof appeal. St Michael and All Angels has not published this appeal.
£500
Target£180 reported by the church
The amount raised is labelled as a church would report it. These figures were not reported by St Michael and All Angels, and no money has been taken. The full note is on the church page.