Official Church, Academic and Government Organisations
  The Heritage
Lottery Fund, principal supporter of this project
The University of Nottingham
The Church of England,
of which the Diocese of Southwell & Nottingham forms a part
Lambeth
Palace Library - Important centre for Church of England resource documents;
the catalogue can be searched on-line
English
Heritage - The government department with the responsibility of caring
for ancient buildings, etc.
Images
of England - Photographic record for most listed buildings in the country
- also includes Listing Descriptions
Nottinghamshire
Archives Office - A department of Nottinghamshire County Council
The National
Archives Register
Lincolnshire
Archives Office
University of Nottingham
Manuscripts Department, and particularly the Archdeaconry
Resources page
The Borthwick Institute
of Historical Research - a part of the University
of York
Historical
Directories - digital library of local and trade directories compiled
as a project by the University
of Leicester
The lists of Nottingham
City libraries and Nottinghamshire County libraries
Resources for Specific Areas of Interest
History
The Thoroton
Society of Nottinghamshire - Local history society. The Transactions
of the Thoroton Society contain much important material
The Nottinghamshire
Local History Association. The Society’s regular publication The
Nottinghamshire Historian is a further resource
Nottinghamshire
History - Site with a range of information about the county’s history.
The site includes transcriptions of a number of significant historical
works
A History of
Nottinghamshire (Cornelius Brown, 1896) - The full text now on-line
of this important work
The
Churches of Nottinghamshire (J C Cox, 1912) - Available on-line
Old
churches of the Mansfield Deanery (H Walkerdine and A S Buxton, 1907) - Full text now
on-line
Old
Nottinghamshire - A local history site put together by Heather Faulkes.
Of particular interest may be the Nottinghamshire
Parish Church Database and the collection of Nottinghamshire
Church Photographs
A
Nottinghamshire Bibliography: Publications on Nottinghamshire History before
1998 (M Brook, 2002) - publication by the Thoroton
Society, available
for download
Stained Glass
The British Society of Master Glass Painters
The Stained
Glass Museum, based at Ely Cathedral
Corpus
Vitrearum Medii Aevi - A research project including the archiving of
all English medieval stained glass. The project also produces the online
magazine Vidimus
Organs
The National
Pipe Organ Register
The Nottingham
& District Society of Organists
The Institute of British Organ Building
Bells
The Central
Council of Church Bellringers (CCCB)- information about many bells and towers
Dove’s Guide - an on-line version of the classic guide to bells in the
English-speaking world
The Southwell
and Nottingham Diocesan Guild of Bellringers, which is affiliated to
CCCB
Monuments and Memorials
Nottinghamshire
Family History Society
Arms,
Armour and Alabaster around Nottingham - survey by George
Fellows (1909) now on-line
Military
Effigies in Nottinghamshire before the Black Death (Henry Lawrence, M.A. and T E Routh,
1924) - transcribed from Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 28
Nottinghamshire
Monumental Brasses (Joseph Bramley, 1913) -
transcribed from Transactions of the Thoroton Society, 17
The Church Monuments Society
The Monumental Brass Society
Stonework
The British Geological Survey, Keyworth
Buildings
The National
Churches Trust (formerly the Historic Churches Preservation Trust) -
National charity supporting historic churches
Nottinghamshire
Historic Churches Trust - Locally-based charity to support historic churches
Researching
Historic Buildings in the British Isles - A guide on how to set about
the task
The Ecclesiastical
Architects & Surveyors Association (EASA)
The Society
for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB)
The Georgian
Group - society concerned with the preservation of Georgian architecture,
including churches from the period
The Victorian
Society - concerned with both Victorian and Edwardian buildings,
including churches
Building
Conservation - Site with many items about conservation of old building,
and including a substantial directory of conservators
Churchcare -
Churchcare is about giving practical advice on looking after and using
church buildings, especially historic ones
West
Gallery Churches - A survey of those churches which have had, or indeed
still retain, a west gallery
The
Ecclesiological Society - An organisation for those who love church buildings
The Churches
Conservation Trust - looking after historic church buildings,
especially those no longer used for regular worship
Pictures
Nottinghamshire
Church Photographs - A collection forming part of the Old
Nottinghamshire site
Topographical
Drawings from the British Library - includes Samuel Hieronymus
Grimm’s drawings of Nottinghamshire churches from the late 18th century
Picture
the Past - A large collection of historic photographs from around the
East Midlands
Plans
Church
Plans On-Line - Includes digitized versions of all plans in Lambeth Palace
Library
Maps
Old
Ordnance Survey maps of Nottinghamshire
Clergy
The Clergy
Database - on-line database of all clergy in the Church of England
from 1540 to 1835
Crockford’s Clerical Directory - The current edition is available on-line,
though for a subscription
Genealogy and Registers
GEN-UKI -
UK and Ireland Genealogy. A page which includes much information of local historical
interest. The Nottinghamshire
page has other links relevant to Nottinghamshire history. Includes a gazetteer
of the towns and villages of Nottinghamshire, with the entry for each from White’s
Directory of Nottinghamshire (1853)
East
Midlands Genealogy - Project to put on line all the historical registers
of the churches in the East Midlands
General
The National
Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS) - One important
part of NADFAS’ work is the recording of artworks (of all categories)
located in churches
Corpus
Of Romanesque Sculpture - A digital archive of British and Irish Romanesque
stone sculpture
The Institute of Conservation (ICON)
- for the conservation of cultural heritage
The
Conservation Register - a register of conservators and restorers
Further Sites
National
Monuments Record Thesaurus - An explanation of a lot of the words used
to describe historic structures
A Visitors
Guide to Nottingham and Nottinghamshire
Nottingham News -
The “Religion” section includes a number of links to church sites;
the “Hobbies | Local History” section also has
several links to relevant sites
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