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Images of England is a heritage initiative run by the
National Monuments RecordThe National Monuments Record is the public archive of English Heritage, located in the National Monuments Record Centre on Kemble Drive in Swindon, formerly the Swindon Works, to the National Trust HQ...
(NMR), the public archive of
English HeritageEnglish Heritage . is a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government with a broad remit of managing the historic built environment of England. It is currently sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...
. The aim of the project was to photograph every
listed building and object (some 370,000) in
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and to make the images freely available on the
WebThe World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks...
. The project started in October 1999, completing in 2008, with over 320,000 images on the website.
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Images of England is a heritage initiative run by the
National Monuments RecordThe National Monuments Record is the public archive of English Heritage, located in the National Monuments Record Centre on Kemble Drive in Swindon, formerly the Swindon Works, to the National Trust HQ...
(NMR), the public archive of
English HeritageEnglish Heritage . is a non-departmental public body of the United Kingdom government with a broad remit of managing the historic built environment of England. It is currently sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport...
. The aim of the project was to photograph every
listed building and object (some 370,000) in
EnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and to make the images freely available on the
WebThe World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks...
. The project started in October 1999, completing in 2008, with over 320,000 images on the website. The project was funded by English Heritage and the
Heritage Lottery FundThe Heritage Lottery Fund is a fund established in the United Kingdom under the National Lottery etc. Act 1993. The Fund opened for applications in 1994. It uses money raised through the National Lottery to transform and sustain the UK’s heritage...
.
The final images were added to the website in September 2008 bringing the total to 323,107.
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
houseA house is generally a shelter, building or structure that is a dwelling or place for habitation by human beings. The term includes many kinds of dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to high-rise apartment buildings...
s, churches,
bridgeA bridge is a structure built to span a valley, road, body of water, or other physical obstacle, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle. Designs of bridges vary depending on the function of the bridge and the nature of the terrain where the bridge is constructed.-History:The first...
s,
tombA tomb is a repository for the remains of the dead. It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes...
s,
telephone boxThe red telephone box, a public telephone kiosk designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, is a familiar sight on the streets of the United Kingdom, Malta, Bermuda and Gibraltar, and despite a reduction in their numbers in recent years, red boxes can still be seen in many places and current or ex-British...
es and
milestoneA milestone is one of a series of numbered markers placed along a road or boundary at intervals of one mile or occasionally, parts of a mile. They are typically located at the side of the road or in a median...
s. Each entry on the database consists of a single, representative photograph and a text listing, written by historic building experts within English Heritage.
In early 2002, the
Country Landowners AssociationThe Country Land and Business Association is a voluntary organisation in the United Kingdom.-Membership:...
(now Country Land and Business Association) raised concerns over the security implications of photographs of residential properties made available on the Images of England website. In response, English Heritage introduced an exemption scheme whereby owners of listed buildings with a maximum of two households were able to register for an exclusion from the database until 2013. The photographs of the properties were still taken, where visible from public land, and are stored in the NMR archive.
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