The one-stop resource for information on English and Welsh parish churches.
About Keyholder for Parish Churches
Keyholder for Parish Churches is a books & reference app developed by cb_newham.
How many times has Keyholder for Parish Churches been downloaded?
Keyholder for Parish Churches has been downloaded 2.1 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 0 times.
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Is Keyholder for Parish Churches free?
Keyholder for Parish Churches is free to download. The APK download size is 13.45 MB. The latest version available is 20.71. The last update was on November 5, 2025.
What are the requirements for Keyholder for Parish Churches?
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play August 2013.
Description
The Keyholder application displays information for tourists and other visitors to Church of England and Church in Wales churches, allow users to make comments, and also add photographs.
It shows which churches are open to the public during the day and which ones are locked, have keyholders or are open at certain restricted times. In addition, the app allows you to add your own information and each church has a link to all the main information sites:
IoE - English Heritage's Images of England Cadw - The Welsh Government's historic environment service CCT - The Churches Conservation Trust FoFC - Friends of Friendless Churches ACNY - A Church Near You CVMA - Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi CRSBI - Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland British History (VCH) for Herefordshire. Explore Churches - National Churches Trust Dove's Guide to church towers (bell ringing) Geograph Google Street View Google Navigation John Whitworth's Essex Churches Suffolk Churches Norfolk Churches Nottinghamshire Church History (Diocese of Southwell & Nottinghamshire)
The app is synchronised with a central server allowing you to share information, photos, ratings and comments with others.
Keyholder is designed for those interested in heritage, art and architecture who like to visit parish churches. It is not intended to provide information on service times or contact details for church officials (although this information may be added by users and is available for England on each entry via "A Church Near You").
Please Note: This is a subscription-based app. Without a subscription you will only be able to access CCT and FoFC churches across all of England and Wales plus other churches located within a few miles of Northampton, so as to get a feel for what the app provides. You will not be able to receive any updates or make your own comments or add photos. Subscriptions are available via the app. Monthly subscriptions have a free 7 day trial period and yearly subscriptions a free 30 day trial period.
Recent changes: Recompiled for 16K pages. Database date corrected.
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Comments on Keyholder for Parish Churches for Android
★★★★★gh g· Mar 28, 2020
This is an extremely useful and informative app to use when out and about and also at home researching churches. There is nothing else to rival it. The information about the open or locked status of our parish churches and the ability to quickly link to maps and Street view is great, but the most useful feature is the links to the Listed Building database description and to expert websites for details of sculpture, stained-glass, and background history etc.
★★★★★James Alexander Cameron· Oct 10, 2015
When Play is full of apps with promising concepts but poorly-developed (some from high-profile organizations) this one is a joy. For anyone exploring England's churches, it can be frustrating to lack the local knowledge of what's open, what's locked but accessible, and what you've barely got a chance of getting into outside Sunday morning. This app uses the author's extremely impressive church-visiting experience along with crowdsourcing strategies to build a database of CoE churches and their opening policies. The app runs very smoothly, easy to see the local variations in locking policies at a glance: well-designed searches and visual interface. It's also helpful to actually have the location of every church so accessible: if you've ever driven into a village and can't find the church you will understand! Of course, it's not perfect yet. There are noticeable gaps in the opening data (but not the churches themselves) for certain areas, the south-west and parts of Yorkshire for instance. But all it needs is a few more users to help out. Currently, the subscription works out a bit over a pound a month: much less than the petrol you waste driving to locked churches!
★★☆☆☆A Google User· Jun 28, 2014
Interesting concept Unfortunately, unless I happen to be in Northamptonshire, I can't see any data without paying a monthly subscription.
★☆☆☆☆Andrea Don· Jul 4, 2017
I have no problem with paying for an app. But I want it to be marked on the Google play installation page and pay for it upfront. Instead of having it looking like it's free with "in-app purchases" (which are normally optional), then finding you can't actually view anything without paying. That's disingenuous and quite frankly, unscrupulous. Such a shame, because I like the idea of the app, but I can't sign up fir something that pretends to be free when it's not. That's very bad practice.
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