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Religious Buildings: Wiltshire

Volume 489: debated on Tuesday 10 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many places of religious worship of each faith denomination in (a) Salisbury constituency and (b) Wiltshire (i) are certified under the Places of Religious Worship Registration Act 1855 and (ii) have been so certified in each of the last five years. (260209)

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The register of buildings registered for worship is not held in a format that can be readily broken down into individual parliamentary constituencies. The closest geographical area for registration purposes which includes Salisbury and Wiltshire is the registration district of Wiltshire. There are currently 260 places of meeting for religious worship certified under the Act for the registration district of Wiltshire. These are broken down by faith and denomination as follows:

Faith

Number of buildings

Roman Catholics

26

Methodists

82

Congregationalists

10

Baptists

61

United Reformed

19

Brethren

3

Salvation Army

5

Unitarians

1

Society of Friends

4

Jehovah’s Witness

8

Other Christian Bodies

41

Note:

Other Christian Bodies includes Christian denominations such as Assemblies of God, Pentecostal, Spiritualists and Independents.

During the last five years the following places of meeting for religious worship have been certified by faith and denomination in the registration district of Wiltshire:

Faith

Number of places of meeting

2005

Christians not otherwise designated

1

2006

Baptists

1