Nicholas Orme is Professor of History in the University of Exeter. He has written widely on religious, educational and social history. He is the leading authority on Church history in the South West of England

". . . This volume is easy to use and presents valuable information, much of it, in effect, for the first time. It provides a useful and inexpensive basis for further investigation." (Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 49, No. 3, July 1998) ‘ . . . an exemplary demonstration of the deep scholarship which we have come to expect of its author, who provides several kinds of index and an awe-inspiring bibliography to the whole study . . . (He) sets the present investigation before us with the hope of its proving the start of an enterprise to trace the history of all church dedications in England and he provides a model of formidable erudition and great clarity for others to follow.’ (English Church Dedications Newsletter of the Centre for South-Western Historical Studies, Spring 1997)

• IntroductionPart OneEnglish church dedications; the period before 1066From 1066 to the ReformationFrom the Reformation to 1800Church dedications since 1800The gazetteer and how to use it.Part Two Gazetteer of church dedicationsChurch dedications in CornwallChurch dedications in Devon.

Nicholas Orme is Professor of History in the University of Exeter. He has written widely on religious, educational and social history. He is the leading authority on Church history in the South West of England

". . . This volume is easy to use and presents valuable information, much of it, in effect, for the first time. It provides a useful and inexpensive basis for further investigation." (Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 49, No. 3, July 1998) ‘ . . . an exemplary demonstration of the deep scholarship which we have come to expect of its author, who provides several kinds of index and an awe-inspiring bibliography to the whole study . . . (He) sets the present investigation before us with the hope of its proving the start of an enterprise to trace the history of all church dedications in England and he provides a model of formidable erudition and great clarity for others to follow.’ (English Church Dedications Newsletter of the Centre for South-Western Historical Studies, Spring 1997)

• IntroductionPart OneEnglish church dedications; the period before 1066From 1066 to the ReformationFrom the Reformation to 1800Church dedications since 1800The gazetteer and how to use it.Part Two Gazetteer of church dedicationsChurch dedications in CornwallChurch dedications in Devon.

Nicholas Orme is Professor of History in the University of Exeter. He has written widely on religious, educational and social history. He is the leading authority on Church history in the South West of England

". . . This volume is easy to use and presents valuable information, much of it, in effect, for the first time. It provides a useful and inexpensive basis for further investigation." (Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 49, No. 3, July 1998) ‘ . . . an exemplary demonstration of the deep scholarship which we have come to expect of its author, who provides several kinds of index and an awe-inspiring bibliography to the whole study . . . (He) sets the present investigation before us with the hope of its proving the start of an enterprise to trace the history of all church dedications in England and he provides a model of formidable erudition and great clarity for others to follow.’ (English Church Dedications Newsletter of the Centre for South-Western Historical Studies, Spring 1997)

• IntroductionPart OneEnglish church dedications; the period before 1066From 1066 to the ReformationFrom the Reformation to 1800Church dedications since 1800The gazetteer and how to use it.Part Two Gazetteer of church dedicationsChurch dedications in CornwallChurch dedications in Devon.