Greater Churches Network

The Greater Churches Network is a self-help organisation within the Church of England. Founded in 1991, there are currently 55 churches within the Greater Churches Network.

Several of these buildings are former monastic properties that were converted to parish church use after the English Reformation. Others are large parish churches built at a time of great wealth. What they share in common are the requirements to offer facilities to a large number of visitors, host special services, offer community access and fund the specialist maintenance and repair of these large buildings, most of which are Grade I listed.

Aims

It aims to provide help and mutual support to its member churches in dealing with the special problems of running a "cathedral-like" church with the organisation and financial structure of a parish church. The group meets every two years in conference to share ideas.^[1]

References

↑ Church of England Year Book 2008. London: Church House Publishing. 2007. ISBN 0-7151-1027-6.

External links

www.greaterchurches.org

Members of the Greater Churches Network

Province of Canterbury	Bath Abbey St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham St Botolph's Church, Boston St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield Christchurch Priory Holy Trinity Church, Coventry St Wulfram's Church, Grantham Great Malvern Priory Great Yarmouth Minster All Saints' Church, Hertford King's Lynn Minster St James' Church, Louth St Laurence's Church, Ludlow All Saints Church, Fulham, London All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames, London Christ Church, Spitalfields, London St Marylebone Parish Church, London St Martin-in-the-Fields, London St Peter Mancroft, Norwich Pershore Abbey Romsey Abbey St Andrew's Church, Rugby St Mary the Virgin, Saffron Walden St Chad's Church, Shrewsbury Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon St Mary Magdalene, Taunton Sherborne Abbey Shrewsbury Abbey Tewkesbury Abbey Waltham Abbey Church Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick Wimborne Minster St Peter's Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton

Province of York	Beverley Minster Bolton Abbey Bridlington Priory St George's Minster, Doncaster Halifax Minster St Peter's Church, Harrogate Grimsby Minster Hexham Abbey Holy Trinity Church, Hull Kendal Parish Church Lancaster Priory Leeds Minster St Mary's Church, Nantwich Church of St. Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent St Mary's Church, Nottingham Rotherham Minster Selby Abbey Sunderland Minster

Church in Wales	Priory Church of St Mary, Abergavenny St Giles' Church, Wrexham

Scottish Episcopal Church	Church of St John the Evangelist, Edinburgh

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