Census of places of worship, sittings, communicants or members and adherents (2549)

Type of Data: Census of places of worship, sittings, communicants or members and adherents (2549)

Faith Community: Christianity (Church in Wales, Free Churches)

Date: 1905

Geography: Wales

Population: Places of worship and adults connected with them

Keywords: Adherents, church members, communicants, Holy Communion, places of worship, sittings

Collection Method: Enquiries made by the Central Evidence Committee of the Royal Commission on the Church of England in Wales and Other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire and evidence submitted by individual denominations

Collection Agency: Central Evidence Committee of the Royal Commission on the Church of England in Wales and Other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire

Sponsor: His Majesty's Government

Published Source:

Report of the Royal Commission on the Church of England in Wales and Other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire, London: printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1910-11, 8 vol., Cd 5432-5439 (Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons, Session 1910, Vol. 14-19)

BRIN ID: 2549

Remarks:

For the limitations 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. 242; for an understanding of the historical background, see Robert Tudur Jones, Faith and the Crisis of a Nation: Wales, 1890-1914, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2004

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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