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The parish with its parish church(es) is the basic territorial unit of the Church of England. The parish has its roots in the Roman Catholic Church and survived the English Reformation largely untouched. Each is within one of 42 dioceses: [1] divided between the thirty of the Province of Canterbury and the twelve of that of York. There are ...
The parish church of St. Lawrence at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England (pictured 2003) Combe Martin parish church (St. Peter ad Vincula), North Devon, England (pictured 2004) A parish church in the Church of England is the church which acts as the religious centre for the people within each Church of England parish (the smallest ...
St Botolph's Aldgate is a Church of England parish church in the City of London and also, as it lies outside the line of the city's former eastern walls, a part of the East End of London. The church served the ancient parish of St Botolph without Aldgate which included the extramural Portsoken Ward of the City of London, as well as East ...
St Giles' Church, Camberwell, is the parish church of Camberwell, a district of London which forms part of the London Borough of Southwark. It is part of Camberwell Deanery within the Anglican Diocese of Southwark in the Church of England. The church is dedicated to Saint Giles, the patron saint of the disabled. A local legend associates the ...
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the historic parish church of Islington, in the Church of England Diocese of London.The present parish is a compact area centered on Upper Street between Angel and Highbury Corner, bounded to the west by Liverpool Road, and to the east by Essex Road/Canonbury Road.
St Mary Woolnoth is an Anglican church in the City of London, located on the corner of Lombard Street and King William Street near Bank junction. [1] The present building is one of the Queen Anne Churches, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. [2] The parish church continues to be actively used for services, with Holy Communion every Tuesday.
St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England [1] in Lavenham, Suffolk. It is a notable wool church and regarded as one of the finest examples of Late Perpendicular Gothic architecture in England.
The Church of England parish church of Saint Laurence was originally a chapel of the parish of Benson. There is a record of the Empress Matilda giving the benefice of Benson, including chapels at Nettlebed and Warborough, to the Augustinian Abbey at nearby Dorchester in about 1140, [ 4 ] and for most of the Middle Ages Warborough was regarded ...