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Questions when determining a naming convention for churches within a given country:

  • Which language?
  • If in English, "St." (North American) or "St" (British and Commonwealth)? This should be determined by the variety of English in which the article is written.
  • Include the denomination's name? Should some be included and others not?
    • Disambiguation should be by location first rather than by denomination – e.g., St. Agnes Episcopal Church is a poor way to do it – as there may be other churches of the same dedication and denomination.
  • Comma or parenthetical disambiguation?

"St" in Commonwealth English

Dedications to individual saints

  • checkY St John's Church, Johnston
  • ☒N St John's Church (Johnson)
  • ☒N St. John's Church, Johnston
  • ☒N Saint John's Church, Johnston
  • ☒N Church of St John, Johnston
  • ☒N St John's, Johnston
  • ☒N St John's Johnston

This is the simplest kind of dedication and would set the standard for how we do other dedications.

When the dedication is also the place name

Other dedications

Christ Church

Always Christ Church, X (where X is a place name)?

Dedications ending in -s or -st

  • All Hallows, All Saints, All Souls, St Agnes, St Barnabas, St Charles, St Giles, St James, St James the Less, St John the Baptist, St Magnus, St Mellanus, St Mellitus, St Michael and All Angels, St Thaddeus, St Thomas.
  • Marian titles
  • Not applicable to, e.g., St Mary Abbots

Dedications to two saints

If the combination of saints is unique, no disambiguation is needed?

Dedications with prepositions

St X-at-Y

St X-in-the-Y

Hyphens or not?

Dedications with the names of donors

Holy Trinity

Idiosyncratic forms of saints' names

Follow style on individual churches' official websites?

Less common dedications

St Michael

Dedications to St Michael and All Angels can be abbreviated to St Michael's Church, X (where X is a place name)?

Titles of Mary

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.

Names of denominations

Omit these unless they are necessary for disambiguation?

Updates needed to lists of listed buildings

Disambiguation pages for church dedications

Main category: Church building disambiguation pages

In Category:Lists of churches, probably incorrectly:

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