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Dedications to individual saints edit
- St John's Church, Johnston
- St John's Church (Johnson)
- St. John's Church, Johnston
- Saint John's Church, Johnston
- Church of St John, Johnston
- St John's, Johnston
- St John's Johnston
This is the simplest kind of dedication and would set the standard for how we do other dedications.
- St Andrew's Southgate → St Andrew's Church, Southgate?
- Style on official website: St Andrew's Southgate
- St John, Friern Barnet → St John's Church, Friern Barnet?
- Style on official website: St John's Church
- St John the Baptist Church, Chipping Barnet → St John's Church, Chipping Barnet?
- Style on official website: St. John the Baptist Church, Barnet
- St Stephen Walbrook: comma or not? Walbrook is a street name. Different convention for (some) churches in the City of London?
- St Anne's Limehouse
Other dedications edit
All Saints edit
Include apostrophe, following the same principle as St John's Church, Johnston?
- All Saints Church, Poplar → All Saints' Church, Poplar
- Style on official website: All Saints' Church
All Souls edit
Include apostrophe, following the same principle as St John's Church, Johnston?
Christ Church edit
Always Christ Church, X (where X is a place name)?
- Christ Church at Whetstone → Christ Church, Whetstone?
- Style on official website: Christ Church at Whetstone
- Christ Church New Southgate & Friern Barnet → Christ Church, New Southgate and Friern Barnet?
- Style on official website: Christ Church[,] New Southgate & Friern Barnet
- Christ Church North Finchley → Christ Church, North Finchley?
- Style on official website: Christ Church North Finchley
Dedications to two saints edit
If the combination of saints is unique, no disambiguation is needed?
- Church of St Anselm and St Cecilia → Church of St Anselm and St Cæcilia or no change?
- Style on official website: Roman Catholic Church of St Anselm & St Cæcilia
- Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury, Harrow – no change, for the sake of brevity?
- Style on official website: Our Lady and St Thomas of Canterbury
- Not a unique dedication; see also Far_East_prisoners_of_war#FEPOW_Memorial_Church
Dedications with the names of donors, etc. edit
- St Mary Abbots – no change?
- Style on official website: St Mary Abbots Parish Church, Kensington
Holy Trinity edit
- Church of Holy Trinity, Minories → Church of the Holy Trinity, Minories or Holy Trinity Church, Minories?
- Church no longer extant
- Holy Trinity Brompton – no change?
- Style on official website: HTB
- Holy Trinity East Finchley → Church of the Holy Trinity, East Finchley or Holy Trinity Church, East Finchley?
- Style on official website: Holy Trinity East Finchley
- Holy Trinity Lyonsdown → Church of the Holy Trinity, Lyonsdown or Holy Trinity Church, Lyonsdown?
- Style on official website: Lyonsdown (?)
Idiosyncratic forms of saints' names edit
Follow style on individual churches' official websites?
St Michael edit
Dedications to St Michael and All Angels can be abbreviated to St Michael's Church, X (where X is a place name)?
- St Michael & All Angels, Enfield → St Michael's Church, Enfield?
- Style on official website: St Michael & All Angels Parish Church Enfield / St Michaels
St X-at-Y edit
- Church of St John-at-Hackney
- St John-at-Hampstead
- St Mary-at-Finchley Church
- St Mary-at-Hill
- St Mary-at-Lambeth: redirect to Garden Museum
St X-in-the-Y edit
Hyphens or not?
- St Giles in the Fields → St Giles-in-the-Fields?
- Style on official website: St Giles-in-the-Fields
- cf. St Giles in the Fields (parish) (redirect to St Giles, London) and St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury (redirect to St Giles District (Metropolis))
- St Martin in the Bull Ring – ?
- Style on official website: St Martin in the Bull Ring
- St Martin-in-the-Fields – ?
- Style on official website: St Martin in the Fields
- cf. varying styles at St Martin-in-the-Fields (disambiguation)
- St Peter-in-the-Forest – no change?
- Style on official website: St Peter-in-the-Forest
Titles of Mary edit
Church of X, Y (where X is Mary's title and Y is a place name)? Retain Our Lady rather than changing to St Mary.
- St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater → Church of St Mary of the Angels, Bayswater?
- Style on official website: St. Mary of the Angels
Names of denominations edit
Omit these unless they are necessary for disambiguation?
- St Agatha's Roman Catholic Church, Kingston upon Thames → St Agatha's Church, Kingston upon Thames
- Style on official website: st agatha's church or Roman Catholic Church of St Agathas, Kingston (sic!)
- St Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Clapham – no change?
- Style on official website: St. Mary’s R C Church[,] Clapham
- There is also St Mary's Church, Clapham, West Sussex