The object, importance, and antiquity of the rite of consecration of churches : as shewn by the Holy Scriptures, the testimony of the Fathers, the canons of the church, foreign and domestic, the decrees of popes, legates, etc., the practice of the English reformers, ritualists, historians, and other writers ; with copious illustrative notes, and an appendix, containing the consecration services of Bishop Andrews and of Archbishop Laud and the forms of consecration adopted by the convocations of 1712 and 1715 ; etc. / by E.C. Harington