The Ecclesiological Society

Prior to our Society, the Cambridge Camden Society had been founded in 1839. In 1845 it moved to London, and changed its name to the Ecclesiological Society. That society had a major influence on the development of church architecture during the mid-nineteenth century. Its famous journal, "The Ecclesiologist", was published between 1841 and 1868, and combined scholarly articles with trenchant criticism. But that society faded away soon after 1868. The publicity for our Society when we were founded in 1879 described us as a ‘successor’ to that society.