--- description: Box score of bombed churches in England and Wales through March 21: 714 destroyed or seriously damaged (including 287 Anglican, 123 Congregational, 118 Methodist, 58 Roman Catholic, 17... title: Religion: Bombed Churches image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) # Religion: Bombed Churches by [TIME](/author/time/) Apr 7, 1941 5:00 AM CUT by [TIME](/author/time/) Apr 7, 1941 5:00 AM CUT Box score of bombed churches in England and Wales through March 21: 714 destroyed or seriously damaged (including 287 Anglican, 123 Congregational, 118 Methodist, 58 Roman Catholic, 17 Presbyterian); 1,945 others damaged (1,100 Anglican, 448 Methodist, 135 Roman Catholic, 106 Baptist, 98 Congregational, 18 Presbyterian). Six cathedrals (Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Rochester, Canterbury, Westminster) and Westminster Abbey have been struck and one cathedral (Coventry) destroyed. On the Axis side, Genoa Cathedral was struck and all its windows shattered by the British naval bombardment, according to a Vatican broadcast. Religion: Bombed Churches ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6764813/religion-bombed-churches/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/6764813/religion-bombed-churches/"},"headline":"Religion: Bombed Churches","datePublished":"1941-04-07T05:00:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-28T18:30:47.848Z","description":"Box score of bombed churches in England and Wales through March 21: 714 destroyed or seriously damaged (including 287 Anglican, 123 Congregational, 118 Methodist, 58 Roman Catholic, 17...","url":"https://time.com/archive/6764813/religion-bombed-churches/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/author/time/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/6764813/religion-bombed-churches/","name":"Religion: Bombed Churches"}}]}] ```