Return of places of worship not of the Church of England and of adherents connected with them (2537)
Type of Data: Return of places of worship not of the Church of England and of adherents connected with them (2537)
Faith Community: Christianity (Free Churches, Protestant Nonconformity, Roman Catholic Church)
Date: 1829
Geography: England and Wales
Population: Places of worship not of the Church of England and the adherents connected with them
Keywords: Adherents, church attendance, churchgoing, church membership, Dissenters, Nonconformists, places of worship, Roman Catholics, sectaries
Collection Method: County, municipal and parochial officials, including constables, churchwardens and overseers
Collection Agency: Home Office
Sponsor: House of Commons
Published Source:
Return of the Number of Parish Churches and Chapels and Chapels of Ease of the Church of England, and of the Number of Places of Worship Not of the Church of England, So Far As Regards the County of Lancaster, Accounts and Papers 1830 (664), (Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, Session 1830, Vol. 19)Neil Caplan, 'Religious Dissent in Sussex, c. 1829', Journal of the United Reformed Church History Society, Vol. 1, 1973-77, pp. 197-203Neil Caplan, 'Sussex Religious Dissent, c. 1830', Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol. 120, 1982, pp. 193-203Rodney William Ambler, 'Religious Life in Kesteven: A Return of the Number of Places of Worship Not of the Church of England', Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, Vol. 20, 1985, pp. 59-64Rodney William Ambler, 'A Lost Source? The 1829 Returns of Non-Anglican Places of Worship', Local Historian, Vol. 17, 1986-87, pp. 483-9Margery Tranter, '"Many and Diverse Dissenters": The 1829 Religious Returns for Derbyshire', Local Historian, Vol. 18, 1988, pp. 162-7
BRIN ID: 2537
Remarks:
The original returns for this survey do not survive, having apparently been lost in the fire which destroyed the Palace of Westminster in 1834; however, duplicate local returns for at least 15 counties can be found in county record offices, generally among the records of quarter sessions. For comments on the accuracy of this source, see Clive Douglas Field, ‘Non-Recurrent Christian Data’, Religion, Reviews of United Kingdom Statistical Sources, Vol. 20, ed. Wynne Frederick Maunder, Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1987, p. 251
Posted by: Clive D. Field
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