How Does Church Recording Work?
Church Recorders work as part of a team, choosing a single local church to record and then working in pairs on different sections of the church furnishings: memorials, metalwork, stonework, woodwork, textiles, paintings, library, windows and miscellaneous.
Training is given by experienced recorders and help is available from a wide range of experts with whom we share our discoveries. It takes about three years to complete a church record and the sense of achievement when the finished volume is presented is matched by the delight with which it is received.
When a Church Record is completed of an Anglican Church in England, five copies are lodged with:
- the church
- the local County Records Office (or the Diocesan authorities)
- Council for the Care of Churches
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- National Monuments Record Centre
Comparable arrangements are made for Records of churches of other denominations and of churches elsewhere in the UK.
Who benefits?
- the church authorities who have a complete furnishing record
- the police who use our accurate descriptions and photographs to identify retrieved stolen artifacts.
- Insurance companies who use our Records to identify items
- Researchers who are producing theses and books on allied subjects
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