Episcopal area, archdeaconry, deanery, benefice, parish, church — and the parsonages, glebe, land titles and boundaries beneath them. Every other area of the platform hangs off this spine, which is why it is the first thing we get right.
Most diocesan systems store a parish name as text in eleven places. Then somebody merges two benefices.
Diocese, episcopal area, archdeaconry, deanery, benefice, parish, church — each an actual record with its own history. Roll a report up or drill it down and the numbers agree, because they are the same numbers.
When a benefice is created, dissolved or renamed, the structure changes forward without rewriting what was true before. A report about last year still describes last year. Pastoral planning →
The share, the inspection, the school, the licence, the case, the meter reading, the photograph. One place record means a question like “show me everything about this parish” has a single answer.
The diocese’s estate is three quite different things that keep being kept in one spreadsheet.
Dedication, listing grade, seating, bells and organ, churchyard, website and public listing — with a photograph of the building and its national designations. Church care →
Houses with their occupants, tenure, valuations, insurance, extensions and compliance certificates — and the inspection cycle each one is on. Property product →
Glebe parcels with income and transactions, Land Registry titles and INSPIRE polygons, brownfield sites, and other buildings the diocese owns but nobody quite lists.
Parish and deanery boundaries drawn on a map with churches, schools and houses on top — so a proposal is looked at rather than imagined. Maps & GIS →
Local ecumenical partnerships and church plants held as what they are, rather than squeezed into the parish record and forgotten.
Rooms, halls, offices and venues with their own inspections and bookings — the places diocesan life actually happens in.
One address model with postcodes, UPRNs and coordinates, so mapping, mailing and distance calculations all use the same source.
Deprivation banding, demographics, flood zone, planning designations and solar potential arrive against the place automatically. Integrations →
Parish, benefice, deanery and archdeaconry each have a screen that gathers their people, money, buildings and casework — the answer to “who can tell me about this parish?” is a link.
A composite scenario — but the reason place registers get rebuilt.