Purpose
Images of England was a stand alone project funded jointly by English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund. The aim of the project was to photograph every listed building and object (some 370,000) in England and to make the images freely available online to create, what was at the time, one of the largest free picture libraries of buildings in the world. It is part of the National Monuments Record (NMR) archive of England’s historic environment.
The project started in October 1999 and the final images were uploaded in September 2008. There is a total of 323,107 images online.
The archive has deliberately not been updated, so any changes to the buildings since the photographs were first taken are not recorded. The official up-to-date list of all listed buildings in England is found on the National Heritage List for England.
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