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How to get the best from our website.

Basic Search is available to everyone who looks at the website, searching from here gives you a selection of the images available.

Advanced Search will give you the best set of results and help you streamline your searches. You need to register to use the Advanced Search, it’s quick and easy to do and free of charge.

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You can conduct an Advanced Search by:

• keyword
• IoE number (a unique Images of England number given to all the list descriptions)
• building location
• building type
• building material
• building grade
• period
• role & associated person/organisation
• photographer

You can use each of these searches on their own or in conjunction with another search category.

Advanced Search also allows you to search by map, giving results of all listed buildings in a two kilometre radius of the area you have selected.

Top tips

• You don’t need to fill in all the boxes to be able to search. In some cases ‘less is more’.
• To refine your search by location enter the ‘Place Name’ instead of ‘Postal Town’
• Sometimes building names differ from those shown on the list descriptions. It may be helpful to use key words in the free text box.
• Using the ‘All’ selection when using the free text box gives you a better set of results, rather than using the ‘Exact’ choice. For example a church may have been listed as St Mary’s, Saint Mary’s or Church of Saint Mary’s, using ‘All’ would pick up the variations.