GENUKI Church Database

Introduction

The GENUKI church database originated as one containing the approximate location of the parishes that existed around 1837. Since then the database has had new fields added to contain additional information, many more churches have been added (in some areas), and more precise locations added where known.

This is because the original church locations themselves were given as the corner of the nearest Km square on the Ordnance Survey map in most cases. Some have now been updated to the actual 1/10 Km location, but the majority have not.

N.B. Unfortunately we do not hold any information for Irish churches at the moment.

Information is continually being added to the database, and some areas contain substantially more information than others. As an example of the leve1 of coverage and detail which we hope to be able to provide, take a look at Barrow in Furness.

Please be aware that the term church is used in reference to the congregation meeting at a particular place, rather than refering to an individual building. The records that we are interested in exist as a result of a group of people worshipping together and the registers reflect that rather than the physical church building. So founding and closing dates refer to the congregation rather than a particular building.

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More information

Further information about using the church database is provided on the help page which is linked from all the search pages.

Database development

The church database is managed by individual county page maintainers and there is a more detailed description of how it is organised which is really only relevant to them. There are also statistics including the number of churches recorded for each county, and which county sections are currently being developed and expanded.

Find help, report problems, or contribute information. [Last updated: Thursday, 02-Aug-2007 08:55:15 BST - Phil Stringer]