Keyholder for Parish Churches
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3.9star
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About this app
The Keyholder application displays information for tourists and other visitors to Church of England and Church in Wales churches, allow users to make comments, and also add photographs.
It shows which churches are open to the public during the day and which ones are locked, have keyholders or are open at certain restricted times. In addition, the app allows you to add your own information and each church has a link to all the main information sites:
IoE - English Heritage's Images of England
Cadw - The Welsh Government's historic environment service
CCT - The Churches Conservation Trust
FoFC - Friends of Friendless Churches
ACNY - A Church Near You
CVMA - Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi
CRSBI - Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
British History (VCH) for Herefordshire.
Explore Churches - National Churches Trust
Dove's Guide to church towers (bell ringing)
Geograph
Google Street View
Google Navigation
John Whitworth's Essex Churches
Suffolk Churches
Norfolk Churches
Nottinghamshire Church History (Diocese of Southwell & Nottinghamshire)
The app is synchronised with a central server allowing you to share information, photos, ratings and comments with others.
Keyholder is designed for those interested in heritage, art and architecture who like to visit parish churches. It is not intended to provide information on service times or contact details for church officials (although this information may be added by users and is available for England on each entry via "A Church Near You").
Please Note: This is a subscription-based app. Without a subscription you will only be able to access CCT and FoFC churches across all of England and Wales plus other churches located within a few miles of Northampton, so as to get a feel for what the app provides. You will not be able to receive any updates or make your own comments or add photos. Subscriptions are available via the app. Monthly subscriptions have a free 7 day trial period and yearly subscriptions a free 30 day trial period.
It shows which churches are open to the public during the day and which ones are locked, have keyholders or are open at certain restricted times. In addition, the app allows you to add your own information and each church has a link to all the main information sites:
IoE - English Heritage's Images of England
Cadw - The Welsh Government's historic environment service
CCT - The Churches Conservation Trust
FoFC - Friends of Friendless Churches
ACNY - A Church Near You
CVMA - Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi
CRSBI - Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
British History (VCH) for Herefordshire.
Explore Churches - National Churches Trust
Dove's Guide to church towers (bell ringing)
Geograph
Google Street View
Google Navigation
John Whitworth's Essex Churches
Suffolk Churches
Norfolk Churches
Nottinghamshire Church History (Diocese of Southwell & Nottinghamshire)
The app is synchronised with a central server allowing you to share information, photos, ratings and comments with others.
Keyholder is designed for those interested in heritage, art and architecture who like to visit parish churches. It is not intended to provide information on service times or contact details for church officials (although this information may be added by users and is available for England on each entry via "A Church Near You").
Please Note: This is a subscription-based app. Without a subscription you will only be able to access CCT and FoFC churches across all of England and Wales plus other churches located within a few miles of Northampton, so as to get a feel for what the app provides. You will not be able to receive any updates or make your own comments or add photos. Subscriptions are available via the app. Monthly subscriptions have a free 7 day trial period and yearly subscriptions a free 30 day trial period.
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Ratings and reviews
3.9
23 reviews
A Google user
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March 28, 2020
This is an extremely useful and informative app to use when out and about and also at home researching churches. There is nothing else to rival it. The information about the open or locked status of our parish churches and the ability to quickly link to maps and Streetview is great, but the most useful feature is the links to the Listed Building database description and to expert websites for details of sculpture, stained glass, and background history etc.
7 people found this review helpful
Paul Wirdnam
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September 22, 2021
It looks to be a really useful app, and I've just bought a year's subscription. I'd like to give it 5 stars but cannot because 1) the user forum seem gone, or at least the in-app link doesn't work. 2) the in-app help text is just too small and doesn't respond to finger gestures to enlarge it (is there a website that I read this from my desktop?). And my reasons for trying 1) and 2) was to try and find the answer to a simple question: if a church is marked as locked, open etc, is there a quick way to find how recent that data is?
cbnewham
December 1, 2021
I'm sorry to hear that Paul. The Forum link is working for me. Please email details. Re the User Guide: sorry about unreadability. You can indeed read it on the web by clicking on the link to the PDF file at: www.parishchurches.org/keyholder-app As to your last query: tap on a church, open the Comments which have the statuses - they are all dated.
Tracy Bear
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February 18, 2022
Incredibly useful. Means I can see nearby churches when travelling, links to listings and access arrangements mean everything you need for churchcrawling is at your fingertips!
1 person found this review helpful