Talk:Church of England parish church

Notable
As most CofE churches are notable in some way, I suggest that those listed here are only the very most notable of all, preferably only those given three, four or five stars in Jenkins' 'England's Thousand Best Churches' Verica Atrebatum 23:18, 12 November 2006 (UTC)


 * While I share your concern about the list growing too long, I think you are possibly applying a rather limited criterion in only considering the architecture of churches. And should we just be lifting from another work, or making our own judgement? So I'm adding a little bit of text to why (in my opinion - and I know it can be edited back out!) churches might be considered of interest, and adding a few examples. Grblundell 08:45, 18 November 2006 (UTC)


 * What you've added looks good to me. I do feel some criteria need to be set in order to prevent overpopulation. I suggested Jenkins' book might help, largely because it is very widely available and pretty good at classifying what is notable. However, as you say, he is mostly interested in architecture and fittings, less so in location, modern or historical connections, etc. Let's see what other people think. There may not be a problem anyway. Verica Atrebatum 15:48, 18 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I suggest that each entry should have a clear statement of its claim to notability, together with a citation. I have removed the rather superfluous (pov) comment defining notability. Abtract (talk) 17:22, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Definition
"the smallest and most basic Church of England administrative region, known as a parish."

Is that true? How does it relate to the district, into which many larger parishes are divided? I've served on district church councils, as well as parish and deanery bodies, and it seemed that a district council had administrative and financial functions. Probably truer to say that the parish was traditionally the basic local unit of the church, but more diverse structures have evolved, especially since the hollowing out of city centre parishes resulted in numerous mergers from the 1960's onward. The idea of a uniform parish system has heuristic value as a standard for comparison, but only very limited historical validity. The royal peculiars, with their anomalous jurisdictions over many local churches, didn't disappear until the 1840's, so the parish system only triumphed just in time to become obsolete. Sjwells53 (talk) 19:30, 20 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Can you edit the article to this effect, backed up by references? Amandajm (talk) 23:41, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Non parochial areas and parishes not in dioceses
"there are very few non-pariochial areas and some parishes not in dioceses"

And - tantalisingly - no list or examples. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.232.34.78 (talk) 22:49, 18 October 2016 (UTC)

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