About the guide

Architecture, plainly told.

Aisle & Apse is a field guide to church buildings as architecture: what the parts are called, how they work, and which styles they belong to. It is for anyone looking round an old building: walkers, travellers, photographers, students and the curious.

What it is not

It is not church software, a church directory or a finder. It names no particular building or congregation, lists no services or events, sends no messages and handles no donations. It carries no devotional content and takes no side between traditions: it describes buildings.

Aisle & Apse is not affiliated with Pushpay or its My Church app, or with any church, denomination or congregation. The address mychurches.info is simply where the guide lives.

How the content is made

• The feature definitions and style notes are written for this site from standard architectural terminology. Dates for styles are given as broad, approximate ranges ("c.") because styles start and fade at different times in different places.
• The three drawings are original schematic drawings made for this guide. They show a typical arrangement, not any real building.
• The Style Finder is a fixed scoring table, not a guess by a computer model. Each answer adds or takes away points for particular styles, and the full ranking shows every point. No AI is used anywhere on the site.
• Many real buildings mix styles or were altered over centuries. Treat a Finder result as a strong hint, then check the tells on the style's page.

Who runs it

Aisle & Apse is built and maintained by WeldonPC (weldonpc.com). It runs itself: there are no staff reading notebooks, no moderators and no outside contributors.