Having done a little bit of work on the image lists for WLM and quite a bit
of categorisation on commons I would add that in some counties they have
the majority of the grade I listed buildings.

So we should talk to the people who manage their physical estate, perhaps
after Wiki Loves Monuments.

Jonathan Cardy
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On 29 August 2013 08:26, Tom Morris <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm just getting ready to write an article for Wikinews about the
> Archbishop of Canterbury, and I realised we do not have a free image of him.
>
> Does the chapter or any volunteers have any contacts at the Church of
> England? I expect they have a sizeable collection of interesting images
> that could help illustrate both historical articles, biographies (of
> bishops and archbishops etc.), articles about places, and things like
> Wikinews articles covering current-day issues in the church (like women
> bishops, the church's attitude to lesbian and gay people etc.)
>
> I've just sent an email to Lambeth Palace asking if they would be willing
> to release some images for use on the Wikimedia projects, but I'd be
> interested to see if anyone else could think of either good reasons to
> want, or good ways to get, images from the Church of England.
>
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