The Church of England has just released its latest set of pastoral facts and figures, Statistics for Mission 2015, which you can (and, quite frankly, should) download here.
As with previous instalments, this is a treasure trove of concrete information on all manner of practical topics: everything from average Sunday attendance (roughly three-quarters of a million, or 1.4 per cent of the English population), to the proportion of churches that have a toilet (64 per cent). Who knew, moreover, that there are 152 churches that are also Post Offices?
