Parish churches [ Institutions ]
… (see the collation of church records for Earls Colne in Essex (1375-1854) and the list of churchwardens’ accounts for England and Wales hosted by My-Parish ) . Many were kept in large chests with multiple locks (as at Beckley in … of Thomas Turner 1754-65 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 55-56. There were over 9,000 parish churches in England and perhaps 50,000 in the Holy Roman Empire alone. Often the most conspicuous buildings in local communities, … and lavish altars (in Catholic Europe), the latter intended as a triumphalist rebuttal of Protestant austerity. 6 In England, Baroque influences in Christopher Wren’s churches built after the Great Fire of London gradually gave way to …
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