Keyholder for Parish Churches

Name: Keyholder for Parish Churches
Author: cb_newham

By: cb_newham

The one-stop resource for information on English and Welsh parish churches.

Features & Capabilities

The Keyholder application displays information for tourists and other visitors to Church of England and Church in Wales churches, allow users to make comments, and also add photographs.

It shows which churches are open to the public during the day and which ones are locked, have keyholders or are open at certain restricted times. In addition, the app allows you to add your own information and each church has a link to all the main information sites:

IoE - English Heritage's Images of England
Cadw - The Welsh Government's historic environment service
CCT - The Churches Conservation Trust
FoFC - Friends of Friendless Churches
ACNY - A Church Near You
CVMA - Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi
CRSBI - Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland
British History (VCH) for Herefordshire.
Explore Churches - National Churches Trust
Dove's Guide to church towers (bell ringing)
Geograph
Google Street View
Google Navigation
John Whitworth's Essex Churches
Suffolk Churches
Norfolk Churches
Nottinghamshire Church History (Diocese of Southwell & Nottinghamshire)

The app is synchronised with a central server allowing you to share information, photos, ratings and comments with others.

Keyholder is designed for those interested in heritage, art and architecture who like to visit parish churches. It is not intended to provide information on service times or contact details for church officials (although this information may be added by users and is available for England on each entry via "A Church Near You").

Please Note: This is a subscription-based app. Without a subscription you will only be able to access CCT and FoFC churches across all of England and Wales plus other churches located within a few miles of Northampton, so as to get a feel for what the app provides. You will not be able to receive any updates or make your own comments or add photos. Subscriptions are available via the app. Monthly subscriptions have a free 7 day trial period and yearly subscriptions a free 30 day trial period.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

cb_newham

Downloads:

2,123

Version:

20.71 Last updated: 2025-11-05

Version code:

311

Creation date:

2012-12-21

Publisher country:

Permissions:

android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION Very high risk
android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION Very high risk
android.permission.CAMERA Very high risk
android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE High risk
android.permission.ACCESS_NOTIFICATION_POLICY Moderate risk
android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE Low risk
android.permission.INTERNET Low risk
android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS Low risk
android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED Low risk
android.permission.WAKE_LOCK Low risk

Size:

17.62MB

Email:

an*****@cbnewham.com

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Google Play Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-09

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 893,012 ▼ 4,535

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Developed by:

cb_newham

Google Play Store

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cbnewham.keyholder

Email:

an*****@cbnewham.com

Website:

http://www.parishchurches.org

User Reviews

Incredibly useful. Means I can see nearby churches when travelling, links to listings and access arrangements mean everything you need for churchcrawling is at your fingertips!

Tr*****, 2022-02-18

It looks to be a really useful app, and I've just bought a year's subscription. I'd like to give it 5 stars but cannot because 1) the user forum seem gone, or at least the in-app link doesn't work. 2) the in-app help text is just too small and doesn't respond to finger gestures to enlarge it (is there a website that I read this from my desktop?). And my reasons for trying 1) and 2) was to try and find the answer to a simple question: if a church is marked as locked, open etc, is there a quick way to find how recent that data is?