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Caio, Carmarthenshire

The parish church, consecrated to Saint Cynwyl, now stands at the centre of the village, near the Roman road that linked the Roman forts at Llandovery (Alabum) and Llanio (Bremia), and the Roman gold mines at Dolaucothi.

Church of All Saints, Bingley

All Saints Church is the Anglican parish church in the town of Bingley, West Yorkshire, England.

Church of St John the Baptist, Bristol

The Church of St John the Baptist, Bristol is a former Church of England parish church at the lower end of Broad Street Bristol, England.

Church of St Mary and All Saints, Willoughby-on-the-Wolds

The Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Willoughby-on-the-Wolds is a parish church in the Church of England in Willoughby on the Wolds, Nottinghamshire, England.

Church of St Mary on the Rock

John Comyn, the first Anglo-Norman Archbishop of Dublin, created a new collegiate church at St Patricks parish church, a collegiate church his successor Henry de Loundres turned into a second cathedral.

Church of St Peter and St Paul, Uppingham

The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Uppingham is a parish church in the Church of England Diocese of Peterborough in Uppingham, Rutland.

Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Hawksworth

The Church of St. Mary and All Saints, Hawksworth is a parish church in the Church of England in Hawksworth, Nottinghamshire.

Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth

The Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Bridgnorth, is a Parish Church in the Church of England.

Church of St. Mary of the Purification, Blidworth

The Church of St. Mary of the Purification, Blidworth is a parish church in the Church of England in Blidworth, Nottinghamshire.

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Plumtree

The Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Plumtree is a parish church in the Church of England in Plumtree, Nottinghamshire.

Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Averham

The Church of St. Michael and All Angels, Averham is a parish church in the Church of England in Averham, Nottinghamshire.

Church of the Ascension, Hall Green

The Church of the Ascension (previously known as the Job Marston Chapel and Hall Green Chapel) is a Church of England parish church in the Hall Green area of Birmingham, England.

Clixby

The parish church was dedicated to All Hallows and dates from the 13th century with a 19th-century restoration by Hodgson Fowler.

Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption, Rouffach

The Église Notre-Dame de l'Assomption (Our Lady of the Assumption Church) is the parish church of the town of Rouffach in southern Alsace and one of the largest medieval churches in the Haut-Rhin département of France.

Fisherton Delamere

The Church of England parish church, St Nicholas's Church, built in the 14th century in a chequerboard pattern of flint and Chilmark stone, sits on a hill overlooking the River Wylye at the centre of the village.

Great Brickhill

The parish church of St. Mary the Virgin is a Grade II* listed building, dating back to the 13th century.

Hartington

Notable buildings in the village include: the market hall (formerly the site of a market); the 13th century parish church of Saint Giles; and 17th century Hartington Hall.

John Fountayne

He is buried in St James' Church, High Melton, the parish church of his family estate in South Yorkshire, a building in which he erected several substantial family memorials and installed much of the church's stained glass.

Longhope

The village parish church, dedicated to All Saints, dates back to Norman times although it was heavily restored during the 1860s when the north vestries were added and the tower was partially rebuilt.

Luzón

Luzón is located on top of a small hillock peaked by the parish church which is dedicated to Saint Peter the Apostle and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sigüenza-Guadalajara.

Lydiard Tregoze

Mentioned in Doomsday as a manor belonging to Alfred of Marlborough Baron of Ewyas and a Tenant-in-Chief to King William I. Near Royal Wootton Bassett, the parish of Lydiard Tregoze was part of the Kingsbridge Hundred, while its village originally centred on the medieval parish church of St Mary and the nearby manor house, Lydiard House, which was the home of the St John family, Viscounts Bolingbroke.

Manuel Uribe Ángel

As customary in those times, he was baptized the following day in the parish church of Saint Gertrude in Envigado by Felipe de Restrepo.

Marcel Lefebvre

On 18 September 1947 he was consecrated a bishop in his family's parish church in Tourcoing by Achille Liénart (who had previously ordained him a priest); acting as co-consecrators were Bishop Jean-Baptiste Fauret, C.S.Sp.

Master of the Schöppingen Altarpiece

His name is derived from an altarpiece, dated to about 1470, that hangs in the parish church of Schöppingen.

Midhurst

Formerly standing within the grounds of Midhurst Castle, the parish church of St. Mary Magdalene and St. Denys was mentioned in 1291 and later in 1367 as standing, "in a place called Courtgene".

Murgenthal

The romanesque revival parish church was built in 1852-54 in Glashütten.

Ninian Spot

Before becoming Bishop of Galloway (or Whithorn), he had also held the parish church of Nelbland, probably Newlands in the diocese of Glasgow, which is mentioned in papal documents because it became vacant upon Spot's accession to the bishopric.

Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Church, Dolgellau

Our Lady of Sorrows Church or its full name Our Lady of Seven Sorrows Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Dolgellau, Gwynedd.

Panteg

Herbert Armitage James, who was Headmaster of Rugby School and later President of St John's College, Oxford, grew up in Panteg and is commemorated by a memorial in the parish church, where his father was rector from 1856 to 1871.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Udupi

The The diocese contains 46 parishes, and the parish church of Church of Our Lady of Miracles, also known as Milagres Church, at Kallianpur in Udupi district, is the Cathedral church of the dioecese.

Saint-Eustache, Paris

Situated in Les Halles, an area of Paris once renowned for fresh produce of all kinds, the church became a parish church in 1223, thanks to a man named Alais who achieved this by taxing the baskets of fish sold nearby.

Sarn, Powys

The historic parish church is Holy Trinity, part of the Ridgeway Benefice, in the Clun Forest deanery of the Church of England's Diocese of Hereford.

Sativola

St Sidwells, formerly a village outside Exeter, bears her name and she appears in stained glass in Exeter Cathedral as well as in the chapel at Oxford's All Souls College and the parish church of Ashton in Devon.

Schöppingen

The Master of the Schöppingen Altarpiece derives his name from an altarpiece that hangs in the town parish church.

Šentgotard

The local parish church, from which the settlement gets its name, is dedicated to Saint Gotthard and belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Ljubljana.

Šentrupert

The local parish church from which the settlement gets its name is dedicated to Saint Rupert and belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Novo Mesto.

Slapton, Northamptonshire

The parish church is dedicated to Saint Botolph and dates from the early to mid-13th century; it was described by Pevsner as "memorably intimate".

St Columb Minor Church

St Columb Minor Church is a late 15th century Church of England parish church in St Columb Minor in Cornwall, United Kingdom.

St George's Church, Brighton

It was built at the request of Thomas Read Kemp, who had created and financed the Kemp Town estate on the cliffs east of Brighton in the early 19th century, and is now regarded as the parish church of the wider Kemptown area.

St Mary's Church, Tal-y-llyn

It was originally a chapel of ease for the parish church of St Peulan's, Llanbeulan, but the township that it once served, Tal-y-llyn, no longer exists.

St Peter's Church, Preston Village, Brighton

It was the parish church of Preston until 1908, when the newly built St John the Evangelist's Church gained this status.

St Richard's Church, Haywards Heath

The present reinforced concrete and brick structure replaced a temporary building which was a daughter church to Haywards Heath's parish church, St Wilfrid's; the new church soon became parished in its own right to reflect the rapid population growth in the northern part of the town.

Taibach

The parish church was built in 1901 by Miss Emily Talbot in honour of Saint Theodore of Tarsus, and in remembrance of her late brother of the same name.

Tathwell

The parish church, dedicated to Saint Vedast, also houses The Hamby Monument, a wall monument originally constructed around 1620, and later restored by their descendants, the Chaplin family.

Troston

Its parish church contains rare mediaeval wall paintings including dragon-slaying and the Martyrdom of St Edmund.

Walter H. Farquharson

After his ordination in 1960 he did a year of post-graduate study in Edinburgh, where he was also assistant minister at Morningside Parish Church.


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Abbess Roding

Its name derives from the Abbess of Barking who was a patron of the parish church of St. Edmund in the Middle Ages.

Aberford

The village contains a number of functional buildings, such as Aberford Church of England primary School, affiliated with the St Ricarius parish church adjacent to it.

All Saints' Church, Monkwearmouth

A parish of All Saints was formed in 1844 when it became clear that there was no longer enough room in the only parish church for Monkwearmouth (St Peter's), and a church for the new parish was completed and consecrated in 1849.

Allen Edward Everitt

He also illustrated J. B. Bunce's "History of old St. Martin's" (1875), the parish church of Birmingham.

Andrés Marzo

He executed paintings of St. Anthony of Padua, one for the parish church of Santa Cruz, and another for that of Santa Catalina.

Arriach

Therefore the Four Evangelists parish church, erected in 1903, is the largest Protestant church building in mainly Catholic Carinthia.

Barredos

The parish church, in the center of the workers' village, is dedicated to San José Obrero.

Bobby Oxspring

Bobby Oxspring died on 8 August 1989, and was buried at Cranwell Parish church, Lincolnshire.

Bosom of Abraham Trinity

though it seems this news had not reached Cornwall by the early 16th century, when a stained glass Abraham with a napkin of souls was installed in the parish church at St Neot, Cornwall (picture below).

Boy bishop

Such ceremonies are now also found at Westminster Cathedral, Salisbury Cathedral, and a number of parish churches throughout England, including All Saints' Church, Northampton, Claines, Worcestershire, and also St Christopher's Parish Church, Bournemouth, (early 1950s), where the Boy Bishop was installed on St Christopher's Day, (July 25), and 'reigned' for one year, preaching and 'presiding' at youth events.

Brenzett

The parish church is dedicated to St Eanswythe and is located on the road to Brenzett Green, a remnant of the original A2070 to Hamstreet and Ashford which was rebuilt entirely in the 1990s.

Briningham

The parish church of Saint Maurice is unusual in that the church tower is on the south side.

Brockham

Christ Church, the parish church is relatively recent in origin, having been commissioned in 1847 by Sir Henry Goulburn, who served as both Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary.

Christ Church, Birmingham

Christ Church, Birmingham was a parish church in the Church of England on Colmore Row, Birmingham from 1805 to 1899.

Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Llanfair Kilgeddin

St Mary the Virgin is the parish church for Llanfair Kilgeddin, near Usk in Monmouthshire, south east Wales.

Crichton, Midlothian

To the west of the village is the 15th-century parish church, formerly a collegiate church, established by William Crichton, 1st Lord Crichton, who served as Lord Chancellor of Scotland from 1439 to 1453.

Dixton

According to the antiquarian Sabine Baring-Gould the name Dixton ultimately derives from that of the saint Tydiwg, or Tydiuc, to whom the parish church was dedicated.

Duchess Marie of Mecklenburg

There was a second Anglican wedding ceremony the same day at the Parish Church of Kew.

Edward Brocklehurst Fielden

He died at Court of Hill, aged 84, in 1942, and was buried at the parish church of St John the Baptist at Nash.

Euxton Parish Church

There is a commonality between the appearance of Euxton Parish Church and the oldest parts of neighbouring 14th-century church in Eccleston.

Ferintosh, Black Isle

Confusingly, Urquhart is the name of the parish but due to amalgamations a Ferintosh "Parish" Church is at nearby Conon Bridge, whereas the former Urquhart Parish Church is close to the Ferintosh Burn (see below).

Greater Churches Group

Several of these buildings are former monastic properties that were converted to parish church use after the English Reformation.

Hartland, Devon

The Parish Church of St Nectan (see main article at: Church of Saint Nectan, Hartland) has the highest tower in Devon (128 ft), built in the late Perpendicular style.

Headcorn

The prosperity brought to Headcorn by the weaving industry, established in the reign of King Edward III, is reflected in the houses built at that time and the enlargement of the Parish Church of St Peter and St Paul.

Jakab Fellner

Fellner's last great work was the Parish Church at Papa in 1773.

James Gillick

An example of church restoration work by James and his family can be seen at the church of St Gregory and St Augustine in Summertown, Oxford, the parish church where J. R. R. Tolkien was a parishioner.

Lady of Knock

The song tells of the story of Knock in County Mayo, Ireland when the Virgin Mary, St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist appeared at the south gable of Knock Parish Church.

Luigi Da Rios

Among his fresco work was his paintings for Villa Bisacco-Palazzi in Chirignago (1864), in Villa Visconti di Modrone on Lake Como (1866) and in the parish church of Chirignago (1878).

Matthäus Günther

Rattenberg—Parish Church of St. Virgil (ceiling frescoes and fresco in the sacristy) (1736)

Matthew Wyldbore

A monument to Wyldbore's memory can be found in the Lady Chapel of Saint John's Parish Church, Peterborough.

Montmerle Charterhouse

Montmerle Charterhouse was dissolved in 1792 during the French Revolution, when some of its paintings, including a number by Nicolas-Guy Brenet, were moved to the parish church of Pont-de-Vaux.

Nicholas Pocock

He died on 9 March 1821 at the home of his oldest son, Isaac, in Raymead in the parish of Cookham, near Maidenhead, and is buried in the parish church there.

Oak Apple Day

The Garland King who rides through the streets of Castleton, Derbyshire, at the head of a procession, completely disguised in a garland of flowers, which is later affixed to a pinnacle on the parish church tower, can have little connection with the Restoration, even though he dresses in Stuart costume.

Orihuela Cathedral

It was built above a pre-existing Muslim mosque as a simple parish church, and was later converted into a main church by order of King Alfonso X of Castile in 1281.

Parish Church of St Clement

The church became a parish church no later than 1067, because it is known that Duke William II of Normandy granted half the tithes of the church to the Abbey of Montivilliers in Upper Normandy.

Reginald Ely

He may also be responsible for the parish church of Burwell.

Riccarton, Ayrshire

A pre-reformation Riccarton parish church stood in the centre of the old burial ground; first noted, as a chapel, in 1229, sub-ordinate to the church of Dundonald.

Rogiet

The Church of St Mary, Rogiet is the parish church, which in earlier centuries was dedicated to St. Hilary.

Santa Margherita de' Cerchi

It was certainly the Donati family's parish church and also contains several tombs of the Portinari family, to which Dante's great love Beatrice Portinari belonged, including Monna Tessa, her nursemaid.

St John the Baptist Church, Coventry

The Collegiate and Parish Church of St John the Baptist is located in the City Centre of Coventry in the Medieval area of Spon Street.

St Margaret's, Corsley

St Margaret's, Corsley, is the Parish Church of Corsley in Wiltshire.

St Peter's and St Paul's Church, East Sutton

St Peter's and St Paul's Church is a parish church in Church Lane, East Sutton, Kent dedicated to saints Peter and Paul.

Strzegom

At the same time the building of the St. Peter and Paul parish church began, from 1203 under the patronage of the Order of Saint John.

Throwley

The Parish church is St Michaels and All Angels which is built of flint, inside are monuments to the Harris and Sondes families.

Tiverton, Devon

Many wealthy wool merchants added to the town's heritage: for example, John Greenway (1460–1529) added a chapel to St Peter's parish church in 1517, and a small chapel and almshouses in Gold Street which still stand; the Almshouse Trust still houses people today.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford and the Osgood House

The First Universalist Church and the Hillside Universalist consolidated with the First Parish Church (Unitarian) in 1961 to form The Unitarian Universalist Church of Medford (or UU Medford) a member congregation of the Unitarian Universalist Association, and has been a Welcoming Congregation since 1996.

Walpole, Norfolk

St Peter's was used as the parish church of the fictional village of Fenchurch St Paul in the celebrated 1970s production of Dorothy L Sayer's novel The Nine Tailors, starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey.

Wood End, Kingsbury, Warwickshire

Wood End became a village in 1906 with the opening of the parish church, St Michael & All Angels Church.

Zorneding

Martin (parish church), late Baroque, built 1719 to 1723, Late Gothic Madonna at the choir arch, Gothic baptismal font, richly stuccoed.