Website Update 2024
The website has not been updated for some considerable time. It started over ten years ago to highlight the churches in Leicestershire and Rutland and to give indications on whether they are open or not. I have always been a keen advocate of ‘open churches’, unfortunately Leicestershire had a poor record for this.
I have now moved to Lincolnshire and therefore will not complete this project, I am happy to say Lincs churches are mostly open.
Although we were thinking of closing the site in June 2024 we have received many kind emails asking us to continue the site. We will therefore keep the site live for the foreseeable future.
We would still like to see the rest of the churches completed so if there is anyone willing to take on the task please contact me.
You can contact me at sales@leicesterphoto.com
January 11, 2024
I have been a regular visitor to you website for years.
It contained just the right amount of information including excellent photos.
So sad that you are clo it in June 2024
I have always valued your work.
Thank you Sir!
February 4, 2024
A fascinating website with important and interesting observations. Many , many thanks for your hard work.
February 4, 2024
A fascinating website with important and interesting observations. Many , many thanks for your hard work.
February 24, 2024
Thank you so much!
March 4, 2024
So sad to hear that you will be closing the website. I wish that we had found it before we tramped around in the rain in October 2023 looking for the church. Wish we had found the churchyard. Bagworth looked quite economically depressed and probably not at all like the place my great-grandmother was born and raised.
We were hoping to find some traces of the Dowell Family and the Crowshaw-Harris ancestors.
Hope to go back one day (we live in Canada).
Thanks for making a useful and helpful website.
Best of everything for your future endevours.
March 4, 2024
So sad to hear that you will be closing the website. I wish that we had found it before we tramped around in the rain in October 2023 looking for the church. Wish we had found the churchyard. Bagworth looked quite economically depressed and probably not at all like the place my great-grandmother was born and raised.
We were hoping to find some traces of the Dowell Family and the Crowshaw-Harris ancestors.
Hope to go back one day (we live in Canada).
Thanks for making a useful and helpful website.
Best of everything for your future endevours.
March 9, 2024
Very sorry to learn that you will be closing the website. It has been a regular and valuable reference point for me in my challenge to visit and find out something about all the villages in Leicestershire (https://jembenson.substack.com/p/leicestershire-villages-a?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2). I hope you will be able to at least archive the material here so all your hard work is not lost for good?
March 13, 2024
Really sad to hear this. For some years now I’ve enjoyed using your website to choose local churches to visit and would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the excellent work you’ve done over the years. I wonder if you could possibly archive the website so that it could be accessed in some way? (Though I have no idea how this could be done.) Would a drive to raise some funds be possible? Nevertheless many, many thanks for the really wonderful work.
June 4, 2024
Thank you for keeping this site open. I came across it by chance but it has helped to make visits to the churches of the area so much more illuminating and rewarding. I hope it can continue to be an inspiration to myself and others for the future. I’m very grateful for all the knowledge you’ve shared. it’s much appreciated.
October 30, 2024
So sorry that you are unable to continue the website as it has been a wonderful resource for so long with excellent information and photographs. I do hope you can keep it live and viewable at least as the material is so good and it would be a tragedy to lose it.
I have been referencing your site for years, and always checking ahead of my annual trips around Leicestershire churches with a friend when we tick off as many as we can while they’re open for Ride & Stride in September. I have thus a large amount of material of my own which I would be happy to contribute to fill in any gaps if you can keep the site open in some form.