+------------------------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+-----------+----------+ | | Sittings. | Commun- | Ministers | Local | Sunday | | | | icants.|(Pastoral).| Preachers.| Scholars.| +------------------------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+-----------+----------+ | Baptists[16] | 1,421,742 | 424,741 | 2134 | 5,748 | 590,321 | | Congregationalists (1907) | 1,801,447 | 498,953 | 3197 | 5,603 | 729,347 | | Presbyterian Church of England[17] | 173,047 | 85,755 | 323 | · · | 98,258 | | Society of Friends | · · | 17,442 | · · | · · | 62,347 | | Moravians | 10,100 | 2,999 | 34 | · · | 4,542 | | Wesleyan Methodists[18] | 2,500,000 | 620,350 | 2658 | 20,119 |1,039,437 | | Primitive Methodists[16] | 1,017,690 | 205,407 | 1101 | 15,963 | 477,114 | | United Methodist Church[19] | 738,840 | 158,095 | 833 | 5,577 | 315,993 | | Wesleyan Reform Union | 47,435 | 8,717 | 19 | 508 | 23,008 | | Independent Methodists | 33,000 | 9,732 | · · | 375 | 28,387 | | Welsh Calvinistic Methodist | 472,089 | 185,935 | 900 | 361 | 187,484 | | Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion | 12,347 | 2,469 | 26 | · · | 3,040 | | Reformed Episcopal Church | 6,000 | 1,090 | 28 | · · | 2,600 | | Free Church of England | 8,140 | 1,352 | 24 | · · | 4,196 | +------------------------------------+-----------+---------+-----------+-----------+----------+ Other Protestant communions. The number of "denominations" by whom buildings were certified for worship up to 1895 was 293 (see list in _Whitaker's Almanack_, 1886, p. 252), but in many instances such "denominations" consisted of two or three congregations only, in some cases of a single congregation. The more important nonconformist churches are fully dealt with under their several headings. The above table, however, based on that in the _Statesman's Year-Book_ for 1908, and giving the comparative statistics of the chief nonconformist churches, may be useful for purposes of comparison. It may be prefaced by stating that, according to returns made in 1905, the Church of England provided sitting accommodation in parish and other churches for 7,177,144 people; had an estimated number of 2,053,455 communicants, 206,873 Sunday-school teachers, and 2,538,240 Sunday scholars. There were 14,029 incumbents (rectors, vicars, and perpetual curates), 7500 curates, i.e. assistant clergy, and some 4000 clergy on the non-active list.