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Lists of churches in England include lists of notable current or former church buildings, territories, places of worship, or congregations, and may be discriminated by various criteria, including affiliation, location, or architectural characteristics.
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 ...
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 and most basic Church of England administrative unit; since the 19th century sometimes called the ecclesiastical parish, to avoid confusion with the civil parish which many towns and ...
The west end of Selby Abbey. The Major Churches Network, founded in 1991 as the Greater Churches Network, is a group of Church of England parish churches defined as having exceptional significance, being physically very large (over 1000m 2 footprint), listed as Grade I, II* (or exceptionally II), open to visitors daily, having a role or roles beyond those of a typical parish church, and making ...
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the origin of the Anglican tradition, with foundational doctrines being contained in the Thirty-nine Articles and The Books of Homilies. [2] Its adherents are called Anglicans.
Some were formerly abbeys or priories, whilst others were parochial, or parish churches, subsequently promoted in status due to ecclesiastical requirements such as periodic diocesan reorganisation. For the other parts of the United Kingdom, see List of cathedrals in Northern Ireland ; List of cathedrals in Scotland ; List of cathedrals in Wales
The Catholic parish church of Gampern, Upper Austria A parish church in Gloucestershire, England The Parish Church of Combe Martin in North Devon, England Inside the parish church of Saint Lawrence in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, England. A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious ...
St Paul's Cathedral Westminster Cathedral Methodist Central Hall Westminster is a Methodist church and conference centre. This is a list of cathedrals, churches and chapels in Greater London, England, which is divided into 32 London boroughs and the City of London. The list focuses on the more permanent churches and buildings which identify ...