Free Seats For All

Free Seats For AllFollowing the turmoil of the Napoleonic wars and faced with the rapid expansion of industrial towns and cities the Incorporated Church Building Society (ICBS) was set up in 1818 to help keep England holy. Gill Hedley's book, 'Free Seats for All' is the first to tell the full story of the ICBS and is based on extensive research and access to the ICBS's archive. With a rapidly growing population, in the early decades of the 19th century, there was a

Vice Patron of the National Churches Trust

Denis Dunstone has followed up with a volume of Welsh churches

This book is published by Umbria Press

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2018 saw the bicentenary of the Incorporated Church Building Society

With a rapidly growing population

and how each influenced the other

whose work is continued today by the National Churches Trust

'Free Seats for All' is the first to tell the full story of the ICBS and is based on extensive research and access to the ICBS's archive

this book is a must-read for anyone with an interest in the history of churches

in the early decades of the 19th century

The latest book by Dr Matthew Byrne tells two closely related stories: the history of churches as buildings and the history of The Church as a continuity of Christian believers