Tag: churches

• Ring the changes: where England’s bells hang

  

  Dove’s Guide lists 7,262 rings of church bells hung for change ringing, 93% of them in England. I mapped them all, and found Victoria’s jubilees, two world wars and seven centuries of bell founding in the dates on the bells.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  data, maps, churches, England, church bells, change ringing, bell ringing, Dove’s Guide

• Here be dragons: do Britain’s dragons live by the church?

  

  I put 26 named dragon legends and 135 Dragon, Drake, Worm and Serpent place names on the map. The legends cling to the parish church (77% within 1 km, against 55% of comparable places); barrows, hillforts and rivers barely matter.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  barrows, British history, churches, data visualisation, dragons, folklore, maps, place names

• Still Standing: why do old buildings survive?

  

  I mapped all 6,837 buildings and structures in Wikidata from before AD 1100. 65% were built for worship, most still are, and the survivors are either indispensable or forgotten.

  Tristan Hotham

  Data stories

  architecture, churches, data visualisation, heritage, history, maps, oldest buildings, Wikidata