Images of England
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Images of England is a heritage initiative run by the National Monuments Record (NMR), the public archive of English Heritage. The project was started in October 1999 and is funded by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund. The aim of the project is to photograph every listed building and object (some 370,000) in England and to make the images freely available on the Web.
The Images of England website states:
- Images of England is a snapshot of the buildings listed at the turn of the millennium; it is not an up-to-date record of all currently listed buildings. The listing status and descriptions shown on the Images of England website are the listings as at February 2001. Any amendments to the listings since that date are not included on this website.
- The photographs accompanying the listings have been taken over a period of time and will not be updated if changes are made to the buildings.
The database includes houses, churches, bridges, tombs, telephone boxes and milestones. Each entry on the database consists of a single, representative photograph and a text listing, written by historic building experts within English Heritage. The text gives an architectural description of each building or object including its address. There are some photographs missing at present.
