Talk:All Saints Church, Narborough

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Hello. To expand this article, there is a useful photograph of this church at Narborough, Leicester. Incidentally, you may want to move this page to remove the capitalisation of Leicester - just All Saints Church, Narborough would be better, perhaps. Bob 16:06, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Mr Castle,

Thanks for your comments. The reason I put Leicester in the title is because if I remember rightly the church in Narborough, Norfolk is also called All Saints! I'm trying to find pictures I've taken of the church at the moment but I've been updating the Littlethorpe page too! I only joined today. Thanks for your comments/suggestions.

Chris —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Chrisnnr (talk • contribs).

That's fine - there isn't even a page for the village of Narborough, Norfolk yet, so I wouldn't worry about that. Bob 16:51, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Gosh, what a coincidence, the church in the other Narborough is also All Saints. But in any case, my view is that English churches, unless especially notable, should be included in the village article rather than having their own article. -- RHaworth 20:26, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that is quite a coincidence, although I suppose "All Saints" is a fairly common dedication. However, I am inclined to agree with your comment about notability - I was expecting a history of this church to be written here, but at the moment it is just repeated content from the Narborough page with a few extra photographs. These could still be usefully included in the village page, and if there are any interesting stories from the history of the church, that would qualify as notable - I suppose it's over to you, Chrisnnr. Bob 21:07, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

At the moment Im trying to sort out some history for the page, as there's little about it on the web. I created a seperate page as there are many church in Narborough itself. As I've had exams recently I haven't the time to speak to the Rector about the history of the church, EG I know one of the stained glass windows in well known throughout the country by 'stained glass enthusiasts'! Thats something I need to look into rather that doing a half-hearted attempt, although it will appear soon.

Chris

Hi again, sorry to revert you, but this isn't really the place to add times and contact details about a church - for one thing, the rector/churchwarden may not want his details being readily available on the internet. To be honest, in its present form, this article isn't worth keeping - the only text content is a short paragraph that I pasted in here from the Narborough page to help you start it. However, RHaworth is quite right that it offers nothing more than what is already on the village page. It might be worth having a look at something like St. Michael's Church, Tilehurst, which is the level of content that makes it encyclopedic. Bob talk 20:26, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Interesting discussion; a comment on whether 'this page is worth keeping'; the normal wiki approach is that if there could be an encyclopaedic article, it should be started; content will arrive! Many old churches in England do have sufficient architectural or historical significance, but hitherto have lacked the home that Wikipedia can provide to make the information available. (I would suggest they are frequently of longer term encyclopaedic value than many existing articles - try White Star !) I would therefore solve the 'problem', if there is one, by keeping the article and encouraging everyone to add the information. The example of St. Michael's Church, Tilehurst is a good one; its early version was very thin, but content arrived! Carbonix 12:39, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

PS Chris please sign your comments with four tildes (ie 4 of these: ~ ) and your name/date/time will miraculously appear - thanks

It is quite an interesting discussion, although it's rather old now. I am all for keeping this article, and others like it. My comment merely reflected that I wrote or added nearly all of the content myself, and much of that was just from the village page. However, it does raise an interesting question. As you say, many English churches are some of our earliest examples of architecture, and are found everywhere. However, I'm generally disappointed by the coverage of them on Wikipedia. Bob talk 23:45, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

To Merge or Not to Merge

I note the above discussion but there is not enough content at present to justify a separate article, and, without prejudging this one lest unexpected quantities of good info should appear later, not every church in England over a certain age should have its own article automatically if the available inf can fit comfortably into the appropriate town or village page - as is the case here - where in any case it has more context. HeartofaDog 14:20, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

• Not to Merge. It is a Grade II* listed building and therefore recognised by English Heritage as being notable. Rather than being merged, it should be kept separate and expanded. Peter I. Vardy (talk) 20:21, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Anglo-Catholic

This church is included in the List_of_Anglo-Catholic_churches#United_Kingdom yet is listed here as "broad church". Do we have any evidence for which is true? Thanks AndrewRT(Talk) 17:58, 17 July 2012 (UTC)