Aspects of the Georgian Church

Aspects of the Georgian Church reassesses the condition of the church in the diocese of York on the eve of those great transformations in society and religion wrought by the industrial revolution and evangelical revival. The responses of the clergy to Archbishop Drummond at his Primary Visitation in 1764 are closely analyzed for the first time to reveal details of church life in more than six hundred Yorkshire parishes. The result is a picture of spiritual vitality that belies the commonly held view of the church in eighteenth-century England as sleepy and corrupt.