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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ From "Hasbury From A Haystack":
‘One of the men who was much in demand when the first chapel was being built was a Welshman named Price. Mr. Price was a stonemason who had been working on the Canal Locks at Northfield. Hearing of work available at the Sandstone Quarries at Hasbury, he came to live here and would have been very useful in cutting the sandstone blocks from the quarry in the field near the site of the present church. Sadly, Mr. Price died at the age of 43 leaving a wife and six sons. His wife had to walk to Northfield every week to get half-a-crown to help her bring up her family.
The chapel prospered in a spiritual sense and the trustees acquired more land from Mr. Partridge who owned the quarry at that time. Mr. Partridge was a stone mason and the headstones that he made could be seen standing in the quarry as the members of the congregation made their way to the services. A sharp reminder of their mortality and need to make their peace with their Maker’.
He goes on to say:
‘So the building of the chapel commenced. We have no record of the men who did the brickwork except for the very fine bit of stonework which formed the arch over the front doors. This stone work was the gift of William Price, who like his father had become a stone mason. He gave the stone and the labour on it as his contribution to the new chapel. The stone came from the quarry, which was situated in Quarry Lane. They also borrowed the tackle needed to lift the beams for the gallery from the quarry’.
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