Cornerstone
Episcopal, Anglican and Lutheran parishes that keep the calendar
Canterbury
Church of England parishes keeping the daily office
What it is
Cornerstone tints its accent with the season; Canterbury paints the whole hero with it. The front page in Lent is a different page from the front page in Eastertide, without anybody editing anything — which is the closest a website gets to what actually happens inside the building.
An English parish church with the calendar at the centre of the design rather than in a sidebar. The hero itself is painted in the colour of the season, so the front page in Lent is not the front page in Eastertide, and there is a page for the church year that explains what is coming and why. Services are set as a board, not a paragraph.
What is in it
- A hero painted in the colour of the season, not just an accent that shifts
- “The church keeps a year” — a page explaining what is coming and why, for people who have never followed a calendar
- Services set as a board, so times are scannable rather than buried in a sentence
- Music as its own page, because in this tradition it is often the reason people come
- Weddings, baptisms and funerals together, with the legal right to marry explained plainly
All 8 pages
Every one is written — there is no placeholder text in any of them. Click any page to open it in the live demo.
What to change first
The services board. It is the most-read thing on any parish website, and Canterbury's is a structured list rather than prose — so getting it right takes ten minutes and pays for itself.
Questions about Canterbury
Is the season colour too much?
It is the loudest use of the engine in the set, deliberately. If you want it quieter, Cornerstone applies the same calendar to an accent colour instead of to the whole hero — same engine, less of it.
Does it cover the daily office?
The services board handles daily and weekly patterns, including the offices. It is a list of what happens when, so a said Morning Prayer at 8.30 sits in it exactly as a Sunday Eucharist does.
