Difference between revisions of "Baptist Chapel"
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Connie Gomme, who later married Fred Baker (click [[Fred & Connie Baker]]) told Dennis Claydon about going to the Baptist Sunday School in an interview as follows - | Connie Gomme, who later married Fred Baker (click [[Fred & Connie Baker]]) told Dennis Claydon about going to the Baptist Sunday School in an interview as follows - | ||
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| + | "I am going to tell you about the Loosley Row Baptist Sunday School which was very enjoyable. At half past ten we had to be at our class dressed up in our best, after on a Saturday just wearing any old rubbish, so Sunday was the day for dressing up. Off we went to Sunday School and had our names called and put down in the register. | ||
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| + | You were given a little ticket with a text on it; you collected all these tickets and when you had so many you had a morning hymn book. Then we had a prayer and a hymn, which was nearly always "God sees the little sparrow fall, it meets his tender view". We had that with Mr Lacey playing the violin and another gentleman playing the organ. Mr Albert Rixon would take the class of girls and have a reading from the bible and perhaps another prayer. By that time it got around to 12 o'clock, so off we went back home again. | ||
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| + | We went home for Sunday dinner, which was quite an event: Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with horseradish sauce, which my dad made. It was so hot it made tears come in my eyes - after that apple pie. Then back to Sunday School for quarter to two. Name-call again then a prayer or hymn. Then the congregation started coming in and we had to sit on the platform and the parson would come. My goodness the sermon went on for hours and hours. But it was only half past three and as a special treat we were allowed out before the parson. Then home for tea and then a walk with mum and dad, sometimes to [[Speen Farm]] where my aunt lived and sometimes to Downley Common, where another aunt lived - which was quite a walk.[[File:Baptist Chapel Float.jpg|left|thumb|Baptist Chapel Float]] | ||
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Revision as of 17:17, 27 August 2023
Land Given. A piece of land was given by Henry Janes to build a Baptist Chapel in Lower Road, Loosley Row, adjacent to his bakery and grocery shop.
The land was part of a new allotment give to Peter Tyler in the Enclosures of Princes Risborough in 1823. It had been bought from Peter Tyler about 1863/4.
In 1905 a new chapel was built on Loosley Hill Road
Connie Gomme, who later married Fred Baker (click Fred & Connie Baker) told Dennis Claydon about going to the Baptist Sunday School in an interview as follows -
"I am going to tell you about the Loosley Row Baptist Sunday School which was very enjoyable. At half past ten we had to be at our class dressed up in our best, after on a Saturday just wearing any old rubbish, so Sunday was the day for dressing up. Off we went to Sunday School and had our names called and put down in the register.
You were given a little ticket with a text on it; you collected all these tickets and when you had so many you had a morning hymn book. Then we had a prayer and a hymn, which was nearly always "God sees the little sparrow fall, it meets his tender view". We had that with Mr Lacey playing the violin and another gentleman playing the organ. Mr Albert Rixon would take the class of girls and have a reading from the bible and perhaps another prayer. By that time it got around to 12 o'clock, so off we went back home again.
We went home for Sunday dinner, which was quite an event: Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with horseradish sauce, which my dad made. It was so hot it made tears come in my eyes - after that apple pie. Then back to Sunday School for quarter to two. Name-call again then a prayer or hymn. Then the congregation started coming in and we had to sit on the platform and the parson would come. My goodness the sermon went on for hours and hours. But it was only half past three and as a special treat we were allowed out before the parson. Then home for tea and then a walk with mum and dad, sometimes to Speen Farm where my aunt lived and sometimes to Downley Common, where another aunt lived - which was quite a walk.
| Amenity Name | Baptist Chapel |
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| Current Status (Active/Inactive) | Inactive |
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