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What a wonderful thing, congratulations. I am looking forward to making use of it.

Thank you. I am hoping eventually people will make some discoveries by using it (I've already found a couple of things - very minor things, granted - but without photographic comparison on churches many miles apart, unlikely to be discovered).

For the past 30 years I have been creating a detailed photographic archive of England’s parish churches. The archive contains nearly 600,000 images. I am currently working towards making this publicly available through the Parish Churches App. 2/6

The app has been in development for the past six months and I am pleased to be able to release the first version today along with an initial database of just over 1000 churches and 60,000 images (one tenth of my archive). 3/6

Each church has been photographed both externally and internally along with the contents. The database not only contains photographs but a brief description of each subject. In addition there is a comprehensive searchable index of people associated with the subjects. 4/6

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This includes the artists and architects as well as all people commemorated with their dates of birth and death along with brief biographical information where applicable. 5/6

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Love this idea. App has a mostly nice UI. Can we report broken links or missing info?

givedogsthevote.bsky.social

You can - the contact info is in the Extra -> Help of the app and on my website (More -> contact). I will do my best to correct mistakes, but bear in mind it's just me - so it could take some time if I'm deluged with corrections. 😄

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Not in a rush about it at all. Impressed with what youve done. Just wanted to pass along any info in case you needed it. Thanks for creating such a wonderful thing!