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 * Authority control and Controlled vocabulary

Dedications to individual saints
This is the simplest kind of dedication and would set the standard for how we do other dedications.
 * ✅ St John's Church, Johnston
 * St John's Church (Johnson)
 * St. John's Church, Johnston
 * Saint John's Church, Johnston
 * Church of St John, Johnston
 * St John's, Johnston
 * St John's Johnston


 * St Andrew's Southgate → St Andrew's Church, Southgate?
 * Style on official website: St Andrew's Southgate
 * St John, Friern Barnet → St John's Church, Friern Barnet?
 * Style on official website: St John's Church
 * St John the Baptist Church, Chipping Barnet → St John's Church, Chipping Barnet?
 * Style on official website: St. John the Baptist Church, Barnet
 * St Stephen Walbrook: comma or not? Walbrook is a street name. Different convention for (some) churches in the City of London?
 * St Anne's Limehouse

All Saints
Include apostrophe, following the same principle as St John's Church, Johnston?
 * All Saints Church, Poplar → All Saints' Church, Poplar
 * Style on official website: All Saints' Church

All Souls
Include apostrophe, following the same principle as St John's Church, Johnston?

Christ Church
Always Christ Church, X (where X is a place name)?
 * Christ Church at Whetstone → Christ Church, Whetstone?
 * Style on official website: Christ Church at Whetstone
 * Christ Church New Southgate & Friern Barnet → Christ Church, New Southgate and Friern Barnet?
 * Style on official website: Christ Church[,] New Southgate & Friern Barnet
 * Christ Church North Finchley → Christ Church, North Finchley?
 * Style on official website: Christ Church North Finchley

Dedications to two saints
If the combination of saints is unique, no disambiguation is needed?
 * Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia → Church of St Anselm and St Cæcilia or no change?
 * Style on official website: Roman Catholic Church of St Anselm & St Cæcilia
 * Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury, Harrow – no change, for the sake of brevity?
 * Style on official website: Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury
 * Not a unique dedication; see also Far_East_prisoners_of_war

Dedications with the names of donors, etc.

 * St Mary Abbots – no change?
 * Style on official website: St Mary Abbots Parish Church, Kensington

Holy Trinity

 * Church of Holy Trinity, Minories → Church of the Holy Trinity, Minories or Holy Trinity Church, Minories?
 * Church no longer extant
 * Holy Trinity Brompton – no change?
 * Style on official website: HTB
 * Holy Trinity East Finchley → Church of the Holy Trinity, East Finchley or Holy Trinity Church, East Finchley?
 * Style on official website: Holy Trinity East Finchley
 * Holy Trinity Lyonsdown → Church of the Holy Trinity, Lyonsdown or Holy Trinity Church, Lyonsdown?
 * Style on official website: Lyonsdown (?)

Idiosyncratic forms of saints' names
Follow style on individual churches' official websites?

St Michael
Dedications to St Michael and All Angels can be abbreviated to St Michael's Church, X (where X is a place name)?
 * St Michael & All Angels, Enfield → St Michael's Church, Enfield?
 * Style on official website: St Michael & All Angels Parish Church Enfield / St Michaels

St X-at-Y

 * Church of St John-at-Hackney
 * St John-at-Hampstead
 * St Mary-at-Finchley Church
 * St Mary-at-Hill
 * St Mary-at-Lambeth: redirect to Garden Museum

St X-in-the-Y
Hyphens or not?
 * St Giles in the Fields → St Giles-in-the-Fields?
 * Style on official website: St Giles-in-the-Fields
 * cf. St Giles in the Fields (parish) (redirect to St Giles, London) and St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury (redirect to St Giles District (Metropolis))
 * St Martin in the Bull Ring – ?
 * Style on official website: St Martin in the Bull Ring
 * St Martin-in-the-Fields – ?
 * Style on official website: St Martin in the Fields
 * cf. varying styles at St Martin-in-the-Fields (disambiguation)
 * St Peter-in-the-Forest – no change?
 * Style on official website: St Peter-in-the-Forest

Titles of Mary
Church of X, Y (where X is Mary's title and Y is a place name)? Retain Our Lady rather than changing to St Mary.
 * St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater → Church of St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater?
 * Style on official website: St. Mary of the Angels

Names of denominations
Omit these unless they are necessary for disambiguation?
 * St Agatha's Roman Catholic Church, Kingston upon Thames → St Agatha's Church, Kingston upon Thames
 * Style on official website: st agatha's church or Roman Catholic Church of St Agathas, Kingston (sic!)
 * St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Clapham – no change?
 * Style on official website: St. Mary’s R C Church[,] Clapham
 * There is also St Mary's Church, Clapham, West Sussex

Updates needed to lists of listed buildings

 * St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater is missing from Grade II* listed buildings in the City of Westminster (A–Z)