Baptist Chapel
From Lacey Green History
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Hallmark December 1982. Click Baptist Sunday School for this report by Dudley Stevens. Hallmark August 1989. by Joan Biggs. The Tombola and Donkey Rides which the Baptist members organsed on Village Day resulted in a cheque for £53.50 being sent o the Wycombe Scanner-Appeal in addition t our share to the Village Hall Committee Fund. thank to everyone who gave and supported us.
Land Given. A piece of land was given by Henry Janes (Henry & Mary 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, Loosley Row.
Connie Baker reported that Colonel Tighe (Colonel & Mrs Tighe, of Loosley House, used to arrange the Memorial Service at the Baptist Cemetery Gates, then walk up to Lacey Green to a memorial service at Lacey Green Village Hall
Connie Baker, nee Gomme (click Fred & Connie Baker) told Dennis Claydon about going to the Baptist Sunday School in an interview in 2000 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.
1914 (circa). Loosley Row Baptist Chapel Sunday School Anniversary. Dennis Claydon researched the names in the photo on the right as follows :- (married names in brackets)
numbers- 1 Jane West, 2 kn.. 3 Nancy Lacey, 4 kn.,5 Lily Lacey, 6 Elsie Harvey (Smith), 7 Louisa Hickman (Rutland) 8 nk., 9 Connie Lacey (Stevens), 10 Edith Lacey, 11 nk., 12 nk., 13 Corah Rutland, 14 kn., 15 Edith Dormer (Redding), 16 Vera Gomme, sister of Frank Gomme, (Bailey). 17 Emily Baker (Harvey), 18 nk., 19 Madge Gomme, 20 Florence Rutland (Tilbury), 21 nk., 22 Beatrice Dormer, 23 Rosie Harvey, 24 Ivy Dormer (Weller), 25 Archibald Lacey, 26 Albert Rixon, half brother of Fred Rixon, 27 Horace Adams, son of Fred Adams of the Black Horse, 28 Frederick 'Saturday' Lacey, 29 Isaac Lacey, 30 Jack Ginger, 31 George West, 32 George Maunders ?, 33 Reggie Hickman, 34 nk., 35 Rose Rixon (Dormer), 36 Ethel West (Rutland), 37 nk., 38 nk., 39 Archibald Dormer, 40 Fred Baker from the Foundry, 41 nk., 42 Phllis Rutland, 43 George Rutland, 44 nk., 45 nk., 46 nk., 47 nk., 48 nk., 49 Alfred Stevens, 50 Clara Stevens (Stevens).
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September 1934. The Loosley Row Baptist Women's Meeting entertained their Lacey Green counterparts to tea. A close fellowship existed between the two denominations. Both supported their churches in many different ways. Every year saw the celebration of Women;s Own Sunday.
In 2005 Connie added to her Sunday School memories -
"Back to my Sunday School days. I did not like it that much, but if you went twice on Sunday you had a little ticket which you saved and when you had enough you had a morning hymn book. Red it was, and we used to write our name and sometimes wrote it backwards. What a laugh. You had a reading book for attendance.
Sunday School anniversaries were great. The highlight of the year, we had a treat. Whit Sunday and Monday. Monday was the day sitting on the grass having our tea. Grown ups were inside. We had bread and butter, plain and fruit cake, which all tasted so good. Bread and butter never tasted so good. Then into Mr Tyler's field for games, twos & threes and kissing the ring. Oh what fun. Teachers came round with a clothes basket with food left over from tea. One of the preachers from Wycombe came and threw sweets for us to pick up. Don't think they were wrapped - how they did not fall in a cow pat."