... Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle). " surveying their point and sweep . They stir up passion alike in author and in reader ; but when their meaning comes to be examined by patient study , it melts away like a snow - wreath in the sun ...
This pioneering book is based upon very extensive analysis of the famous 1851 Census of Religious Worship and earlier sources such as the 1676 Compton Census.
"This book is a discussion of the part played by religious revivalism, and by the American professional religious revivalist, in the religious world of nineteenth-century England.
This volume sheds light on the pride of the region - the great medieval churches of York Minster, the Minster and St Mary at Beverley, and Holy Trinity, Hull but also on less well known architectural pleasures of town and county.