IntroductionChurch Archaeology is the journal of the Society for Church Archaeology (SCA). The Society arose after the dissolution of the Churches Committee of the Council for British Archaeology. From 1975, the Committee published the biannual newsletter The Bulletin of the CBA Churches Committee, which reported on recent archaeological, architectural and conservation work, working parties, consultations, briefings, and other notes, and ran to 27 issues, ending in 1990. The SCA was launched at a conference in York in March 1996, and the first annual journal was published a year later.
The Society exists to promote the study, conservation and preservation of all aspects of churches and other places of worship and their associated landscapes and material culture. This remit includes buildings and their monuments and furnishings; religious art; burial grounds, earthworks and landscapes; relationships between places of worship and the secular landscape; and heritage and conservation of historic places of worship in the modern era. Although the journal’s original focus and the bulk of its articles relate to sites in Britain and Ireland, the journal welcomes and publishes relevant papers from around the world, and from both Christian and non-Christian contexts.
The digitisation of Church Archaeology was generously supported by the Marc Fitch Fund.
