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Every Church

Map 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.

St Michael and All AngelsOpen the map

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 village church at Little Badminton on a bright day, photographed by Adrian Pingstone on 28 July 2013. People in the churchyard are not identified.
Adrian Pingstone, 28 July 2013. Released into the public domain. People in the churchyard are not named. Resized for this preview.

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 map

What a page can hold

Six rooms, none of them pretending to be finished.

01

Point-to-Point

Footpath walks from church to church, on public footpaths and bridleways, with a map, the churches on the way and a GPX file. The first four routes come from OpenStreetMap path data and have not yet been walked and checked.

Open the walks

02

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 buttons

03

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 hub

04

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 example

05

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 photographs

06

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 Vestry

Bells · 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.

Looking east towards St Michael and All Angels, Little Badminton. Photograph by Phil Williams, 30 January 2007.
Earlier photograph. Phil Williams, 30 January 2007. “A view looking east.” CC BY-SA 2.0. The file is the original 640 × 480 photograph. On a wide screen the browser enlarges it.
St Michael and All Angels, Little Badminton, photographed by David Purchase on 3 July 2011.
Later photograph. David Purchase, 3 July 2011. CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized, not cropped.

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.