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Census of places of worship, communicants, hearers and Sunday scholars (2539)


Type of Data: Census of places of worship, communicants, hearers and Sunday scholars (2539)

Faith Community: Christianity

Date: 1834

Geography: England (202 towns and villages) and Jersey

Population: Adults and Sunday scholars connected with places of worship

Keywords: Church attendance, churchgoing, church members, communicants, hearers, Holy Communion, places of worship, religious education, Sunday school

Collection Method: Network of local (Nonconformist) correspondents

Collection Agency: Congregational Union of England and Wales

Published Source:

  • 'A Comparative View of the Hearers, Communicants and Scholars Belonging to Churchmen, Dissenters & Wesleyan Methodists in Two Hundred and Three Towns and Villages of England, Compiled From Local Returns', Congregational Magazine, New Series, Vol. 10, 1834, Supplement

    BRIN ID: 2539

    Remarks:

    See the comments on the accuracy of the survey in 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. 236

    Posted by: Clive D. Field

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