Following the unrest and earlier protests of 1910 (at the consecration of the new St. Mary’s church), in January 1911 it was reported across the Yorkshire region that services at the Kensit Mission in South Elmsall were being well attended. The same month Mr L. A. Ewart (of Birmingham, leader of the Wickliffe preachers) addressed a large gathering in the town with his speech on “the betrayal of Protestantism in the Church of England by ritualistic priests.” By February the local feeling in the Kensit cursade had swelled to the point that a huge torchlit march left South Elmsall, heading to St. Chad’s Hostel in nearby Hooton Pagnell. It was noted that many miners lost a shift to join the march. Setting off from the Primitive Methodist Chapel the procession walked through the darkness for two miles with “the torches making a lurid glare” and hymns were sung in full voice. Having confronted students of St. Chad’s Hostel the gathering made their way to the Hooton Pagnell village green where leader, Mr Ewart, vigorously denounced ritualism in the Church of England, from the top of the village pump. Mr Ewart went on to declare that the gathered masses were opposed to hostels in which young men were trained to become Roman Catholic priests in the Church of England, to loud cheers. It was also noted that the protests specifically were against such men as the vicar of South Kirkby and the curate of South Elmsall, who were “doing the work of a Roman Catholic priest in the Church of England and receiving Protestant money.”

Mr Ewart, it seems, was no stranger to having been imprisoned for his views, he told the crowd; “today i have been handed a summons to appear before the Pontefract Magistrates for alleged obstruction of St. Mary’s Church… …i have been in prison before and i probably shall go again… …i hope you people of South Elmsall will make no attempt to pay my fine, as freedom of speech is a blood-bought right.” The procession afterwards retuned to South Elmsall to prepare for the visit of Mr John Kensit and Mrs Kensit, the following day. The fine imposed on Mr Ewart was noted as 2s. 6d. plus costs but despite his wish to serve the seven day alternative sentence his fine was paid by an anonymous supporter. Marking the departure of Mr Ewart from South Elmsall a gathering took place at the Council School, where it was announced that Mr Ewart’s fortnight mission in South Elmsall had incurred costs of £29, he was not paid a penny for his services.

Towards the end of February the Rev. A. Gould (curate in charge of St. Mary’s Church) announced that South Elmsall was to become a separate ecclesiastical Parish from South Kirkby and that the South Elmsall Protestant Truth Society would meet with Mr W. W. Warde-Aldham of Frickley Park to raise funds for a mission hall. The newly appointed committee reported that many prominent men in the district supported the mission and that ten members had already promised £50 towards the new hall. In April Mr Ewart once again returned to South Elmsall, opening a mission at the Council Schools once again. Mr Ewart addressed the large audience with a recent tale of an attempt of murder upon his life by Roman Catholic priests, with evidence for the planned murder (a letter) being in the hands of the police. Mr Ewart noted that the practice of Mariolatry (the worship of Virgin Mary) was one of a number of ritualistic behaviours present in South Elmsall but that he was pleased that a new, strong Scout movement had begun in the town, in protest to the former, ritualistic Church Lad’s Brigade.