Article contents 1. Statistics Collected by the State 1.1 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 1.2 Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 2. Statistics Collected by Faith Communities 2.1 Established Churches: Church of England 2.2 Established Churches: Wales and Scotland 2.5 Free Churches: Baptists, Congregationalists and Quakers 2.6 Free Churches: Other Denominations 2.7 Roman Catholic Church: Before the Second World War 2.8 Roman Catholic Church: After the Second World War 2.9 Ecumenical Initiatives: National 2.10 Ecumenical Initiatives: International 2.11 Non-Christian Faiths: General 2.12 Non-Christian Faiths: Judaism 3. Statistics Collected by Other Agencies 4. Future Needs and Prospects for Religious Statistics Select Bibliography of the Religious History of Modern Britain General Church of England Free Churches Roman Catholicism Sects Judaism Islam New Religious Movements Irreligion Wales Scotland Recent Publications on the 1851 Religious Census of England and Wales General Commentaries Local Studies Contemporary Regional Studies of Religion as Social Capital in England and Wales Church of England Clergy Visitation Returns of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Primary Sources: Editions of Returns Primary Sources: Editions of Specula Secondary Sources: Visitation Process Secondary Sources: Use of Returns Abraham Hume’s Contribution to Religious Statistics and Sociology Local Censuses of Church Attendance in Great Britain, 1881-82 Newman Demographic Survey and Pastoral Research Centre John Highet’s Contribution to Scottish Religious Statistics Local Censuses of Church Attendance in Great Britain, 1901-12 |
Local Censuses
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Place |
Date |
Conducted by/published source |
England | ||
Chester and Hoole | 1903, 25 October | Cheshire Observer, 31 October 1903 |
Desbury | 1901, 10 February (evening only) | George Coates, ‘Temperance Notes’, Methodist New Connexion Magazine, Vol. 104, 1901, p. 81 |
Hull | 1903, 13 December and 1904, 10 January-17 February (incomplete) | Hull News; Peter Derek Stubley, ‘Serious Religion and the Improvement of Public Manners: The Scope and Limitations of Evangelicalism in Hull, 1770-1914’, University of Durham Ph.D. thesis, 1991, pp. 202-6, 300-3 |
Lincoln | 1903, 8 March | Lincoln Leader and County Advertiser, 14 March 1903; James William Francis Hill, Victorian Lincoln, London: Cambridge University Press, 1974, pp. 313-16 |
Liverpool | 1902, 2 November | Liverpool Daily Post, 11 November 1902 |
Liverpool | 1912, 8 December | Liverpool Daily Post and Mercury, 13 December 1912 |
London, Inner | 1902, 30 November-1903, 21 June | Daily News; The Religious Life of London, ed. Richard Mudie-Smith, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1904, pp. 1-333, 449-61, 475-503 |
London, Greater | 1903, 19 July-8 November | Daily News; The Religious Life of London, ed. Richard Mudie-Smith, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1904, pp. 335-450, 458, 462, 504-18 |
Middlesbrough | 1904, 1, 8, 15 and 22 May | Middlesbrough Temperance Society; North Eastern Daily Gazette, 5, 12, 19 and 26 May, 2, 9, 16, 23 and 30 June, and 7 July 1904; Peter Derek Stubley, ‘The Churches and the Iron and Steel Industry in Middlesbrough, 1890-1914’, University of Durham M.A. thesis, 1979, pp. 83-91, 136-41 |
Newport, Isle of Wight | 1903 | Newport Free Church Council; ‘What the Councils are Doing’, Free Church Chronicle, Vol. 5, 1903, pp. 252-3 |
Perranuthnoe | 1903. November | The Cornishman, 21 and 26 November 1903 |
Southend | 1903, 4 January | Southend Standard, 8 January 1903 |
Wallasey | 1903, 24 May | Wallasey News, 30 May 1903 |
Wallasey | 1906, 2 December | Wallasey News, 8 December 1906; Religious Census of the Wallasey Churches taken on Sunday, Dec. 2nd 1906, Seacombe: Willmer Bros., [1906] |
Whitehaven, Workington and 37 other towns and rural districts in West Cumberland | 1902, 14 December | West Cumberland Times, 20 December 1902 |
York | 1901, 17 and 24 March | Benjamin Seebohm Rowntree, Poverty: A Study of Town Life, London: Macmillan, 1901, pp. 345-9 |
Wales | ||
Carnarvon | 1908, 26 January | Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald, 31 January and 7 February 1908 |
Carnarvon | 1908, 5 July | Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald, 10 July 1908 |
Tredegar | 1909, December | Tredegar Free Church Council; ‘Religious Investigation Work’, Free Church Year Book, 1910, pp. 155-7 |
Scotland | ||
Aberdeen | 1901 (morning only) | Aberdeen Journal and General Advertiser, 15 and 18 April 1901 |
Aberdeen | 1911, 2 April (morning only) | Aberdeen Daily Journal |
Dundee | 1901 | Dundee Advertiser, 1 April 1901 |