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On-screen road atlas maps A site with (free) detailed on-screen road atlas maps. Simply click UK Place, enter the location you want (in this case the village/town - e.g. Crostwight) and watch the map appear. Very easy to negotiate and includes most places, although some villages are too small.

County Map

Old Counties - ignoring later administrative units, e.g. Avon, Humberside.
Italic numbers = churches now on site. Click the links at the left hand side below for their names & further links etc.

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1 N'thumberland
2 Cumbria
3 Click for Durham 1
4 Click for North Yorkshire 3
5 E Yorks
6 W Yorks
7 Lancs
8 Click for Cheshire 2
9 Click for Staffordshire 1
10 Click for Derbyshire 2
11 Click for Nottinghamshire 1
12 Click for Lincolnshire 4
13 Click for Shropshire 4
14 Click for Worcestershire 3
15 Click for Warwickshire 2
16 Click for Leicestershire 2
17 Click for Rutland 1
18 Click for Northamptonshire 7
19 Click for Cambridgeshire 18
20 Click for Norfolk 35
21 Click for Suffolk 23
22 Click for Herefordshire 1
23 Click for Gloucestershire 3
24 Click for Oxfordshire 16
25 Click for Buckinghamshire 9
26 Click for Bedfordshire 5
27 Click for Hertfordshire 4
28 Middlesex
29 Grtr. London
30 Click for Essex 7
31 Click for Somerset 2
32 Click for Wiltshire 3
33 Click for Berkshire 2
34 Click for Surrey 2
35 Click for Kent 10
36 Click for Hampshire 7
37 Click for Sussex (West) 9
38 Click for Sussex (East) 1
39 Click for Isle of Wight (Hampshire) 2
40 Click for Dorset 5
41 Click for Devon 1
42 Cick for Cornwall 5

List of parish churches with medieval wall paintings in England

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PAINTED CHURCHES : LOCATION LIST & ACCESS DETAILS

This list, now organised by county, includes only churches I have seen personally; many others are in the various books listed on the Bibliography page. The details in italics refer to other medieval artefacts of interest in the individual churches. The old Location Map, which was becoming unfeasibly crowded, has been replaced by a County Map giving total numbers of churches on the site in a given county, with links back to this page.
Some access details are included below; where there are none try first the Digital Atlas of England. Below, K=O means I found the church open on at least one occasion. K=N means there is a visible notice telling visitors where a key or keyholder can be found. Usually this is a nearby house. Things can change of course - a church that was open last week may be closed this week, and vice-versa, so if you need to plan in advance, another resource is the Anglican Dioceses site. The link will take you to a list of English Dioceses with address, phone number, fax and e-mail for the relevant Diocesan Office (to find out which Diocese a church is in click the name below to link to its page or pages), and someone there will be able to give you contact details for a churchwarden, steward or other church official for any given church. Diocesan Office staff are usually very helpful.
So far as the details below are concerned, no information about access means only that I failed to make a note of this - an omission Im trying to put right - but if it is locked, the overwhelming likelihood is that the church has a notice on the door, as described above. All but a few medieval churches give visitors some basic information about how to get in.

Bedfordshire

  • Chalgrave
    • K=O
  • Copford
    • . K=O (take some 20p coins in case you need the lights on)
  • Fairstead
  • Layer Marney (vg tombs; glass-?Flemish)
  • Little Easton (good tombs)
  • Little Tey
    • . K=N (nearby)
  • Wendens Ambo
    • K=O (may be seasonal or occasional)

    Gloucestershire

  • Ampney Crucis
    • (forthcoming)
  • Ampney St.Mary
    • , K=O
  • Kempley
    • K=O
  • Oddington
  • Stoke Orchard
    • K=O

    Hampshire

  • Breamore (painted/inscribed Saxon arch)
  • East Wellow (or Dorset???)
  • Idsworth K=O (custodian present)
  • Catherington K=O
  • Selling (glass - C.14 East Window) K=N (nearby)
  • Hemblington
    • K=N (nearby) (painted font; pews; rood stairs)
  • Heydon Norfolk (painted screen; glass miscellany)
    • K=O
  • Houghton-on-the-Hill
    • K=N (in North Pickenham village)
  • Irstead( screen, glass, vg. carved font, woodwork)K=Obench-end (dog) at Irstead
    • K=N
  • Chacombe
    • K=N
  • Croughton
    • K=N (at Croughton Post Office)
  • Great Harrowden Northamptonshire (glass/brass/screen/clock)
  • Mears Ashby K=O or key nearby

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