ABSTRACT
The conservatism of the Lutheran churches has meant that there are many substantially unaltered buildings throughout Germany and Scandinavia. Again Yates's Buildings, Faith and Worship and the Religious Condition of Ireland are useful guides to surviving examples of substantially unaltered preecclesiological Roman Catholic churches in Britain and Ireland. Especially in the Nordic countries, in which seventeenth to nineteenth century furnishings have been preserved, a modest selection of interesting buildings outside this area. A number of examples of such churches in England, Wales and Scotland. There are few good modern churches in Wales. Although box pews have frequently been retained, the popularity of the pulpit-platform in Wales after 1860 has meant that most earlier chapels have had their earlier pulpits and communion enclosures replaced. The suggestions made are therefore highly selective and designed to give both a chronological and a geographical balance across England, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Wales.
