| Denominations | No. of places of worship & sittings | No. of attendants at public worship on Sunday 30 March 1851 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Places of worship | Sittings | Morning | Afternoon | Evening | |
| Protestant churches: | |||||
| Church of England | 243 | 49,312 | 22,010 | 10,836 | 4,475 |
| Independents | 20 | 2,892 | 1,068 | 314 | 1,275 |
| Particular Baptists | 15 | 3,394 | 1,970 | 988 | 1,567 |
| Baptists (undefined) | 1 | 100 | ~ | ~ | 97 |
| Society of Friends | 4 | 1,050 | 60 | 35 | ~ |
| Moravians | 2 | 320 | 93 | 75 | 95 |
| Wesleyan Methodists | 44 | 4,502 | 1,536 | 765 | 1,844 |
| Primitive Methodists | 71 | 4,496 | 724 | 1,723 | 2,162 |
| Welsh Calvinistic Methodist | 3 | 440 | 40 | 108 | 100 |
| Lady Huntingdon's Connexion | 2 | 526 | 106 | 59 | 60 |
| Brethren | 5 | 508 | 226 | 26 | 340 |
| Isolated Congregations | 7 | 1,020 | 447 | 58 | 580 |
| Other Christian churches: | |||||
| Roman Catholics | 5 | 900 | 119 | 443 | 20 |
| Latter Day Saints/Mormons | 4 | 115 | 52 | 96 | 13 |
| Total | 426 | 69,575 | 28,451 | 15,526 | 12,628 |