The Ecclesiological Society

For those who love churches

Welcome to the Ecclesiological Society website. Whether you are an expert on church history and church architecture, or merely curious, our Society provides lots of information, publications, images, news and events. You might wish to sign up to our free e-newsletter, or think about becoming a member of the Society to join in its events and receive its publications.

News

List of historical members of the Ecclesiological Society published

A complete membership list of the Cambridge Camden Society from its beginnings in 1839 and of its renamed successor, the Ecclesiological Society, from 1845 to 1867.

Download our valuable resources

Available through this website are links to most editions of The Ecclesiologist (1841-1867), The Transactions of the St Paul’s Ecclesiological Society (1881-1905) and the Newsletter (1980-1993).

All editions of our current journal, Ecclesiology Today, are available here, beginning in 1993.

The downloads are here.

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All Souls’ Haley Hill, Halifax

Sir George Gilbert Scott boasted in his memoirs that All Souls’ Haley Hill in Halifax was “on the whole, my best church”. Quite a statement from arguably the world’s finest architect of the Gothic Revival. He went on to say: “but it labours...