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Rh before long, universally observed." At his next visitation, he remarked: "During the three last years 62 parishes have added a Sunday service, 57 have added a sermon at the afternoon or morning service. In 57 more parishes baptism is publicly administered. In 1839, 143 parishes only had two sermons; in 1851, 295. Monthly communion in 1839, 35; in 1851, 84."

During the episcopate of the last but one of Bishop Denison's predecessors in the See of Sarum, and which extended from 30th of June, 1807, till June, 1827, four churches had been consecrated, three of which had been rebuilt, and one had been new.

During the episcopate which immediately preceded that of Bishop Denison, and which extended from June, 1827, to February, 1837, seven new churches were built and two rebuilt.

Bishop Denison's episcopate lasted from April, 1837, to March, 1854, and during this period, in Wiltshire, 22 new churches were built, and 30 rebuilt from the ground. In Dorsetshire (annexed during Bishop Denison's episcopate, in lieu of Berkshire, to the diocese), 14 new churches were built, eight were rebuilt from the ground, six were enlarged, making a total of 72 churches built, rebuilt, and enlarged, besides about 80 more repaired and restored without being enlarged, in a diocese not thickly inhabited. It was not only, however, the number of the consecrations, but the circumstances