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. 197-203

Neil Caplan, 'Sussex Religious Dissent, c. 1830', Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol. 120, 1982, pp. 193-203

Rodney 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. 59-64

Rodney William Ambler, 'A Lost Source? The 1829 Returns of Non-Anglican Places of Worship', Local Historian, Vol. 17, 1986-87, pp. 483-9

Margery 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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