The Parish Church Photographic Survey
Nearly thirty years. Eight thousand churches. Half a million images.
The Survey
The Parish Church Photographic Survey is documenting in detail every rural Church of England parish church in England — its architecture, monuments, glass, brasses, fonts, hatchments, wall paintings, and furnishings. Now approaching 10,000 churches and 500,000 images, it is the largest photographic archive of English church art and architecture in existence.
The Book
Country Church Monuments (Penguin Random House, 2022) presents 365 of the finest funerary monuments in rural English and Welsh churches — medieval brasses, marble effigies, stone tomb chests and grand mausoleums — many photographed here for the first time.
The App
The Parish Churches app gives direct access to the survey archive: search by church, county, keyword, date, architect, artist or person commemorated. Over 51,000 images across more than 1,000 churches, with the full archive being added continuously.
C. B. Newham FSA
Cameron Newham is an independent heritage documentarian, author and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. He has spent nearly thirty years systematically photographing the rural parish churches of England, and is a specialist in English church monuments. He is the author of Country Church Monuments (Penguin Random House, 2022).
Contact
For image licensing, research enquiries, or press requests, please use the contact form.
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