Church Crawling & English Church Books
Church crawling is the happy habit of visiting churches for their own sake: the carved bench ends, wall paintings, medieval graffiti and stories that sit in almost every English parish. This collection brings together our favourite books on churches, from field guides to the hidden histories behind them.
Start with Rachel Morley's Church Crawling or Luke Sherlock's Forgotten Churches, a Sunday Times bestseller. Peter Ross's Steeple Chasing takes a journey around Britain by church, and Simon Jenkins's England's Thousand Best Churches is the classic guide for planning a route. To learn what you're looking at, How to Read a Church is the place to begin. Our English Church Doors 2027 Calendar makes an easy gift for fellow church crawlers.
