Lordshill Chapel

Tythe Apportionments circa 1847 showing Trustees

Enlargement

Above Images Courtesy of Shropshire Archives

Below is a grave plan and a brief description of the inscriptions on the graves.

This document was from Shropshire Archives, Shrewsbury.

This needs updating with photographs, more detailed records and lost graves found volunteers?

Gone to Earth from the novel by Mary Webb filmed at Lordshill circa 1950

(Click picture to see the film on YouTube)

Stills from the film

Steps in the foreground were to the original baptism pool in the stream

Looking out of the Chapel gate

Track In front of the Chapel (the Chapel pit shaft 1026ft deep is off picture to top left)!

The baptism pool constructed for the film.

This is now an area with Flag (Iris pseudacorus) growing in it

Chapel shaft engine chimney with Lordshill in the background. On the left the pit and chimney were added on the film.

Lordshill Date unknown

Lordshill 5th May 2024

Gate into Chapel

Flowering Cherry in Graveyard April 2023

Below pictures of Graves and inscriptions

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The grave of BERYL IVY SALTER and ANNIE MAY SALTER (EVANS)

138

CHARLES ANDREWS (Willie) The dearly adopted son of Mary Evans died 8th April 1916 Aged 23
Also of ALICE ROBERTS died August 19th 1912 Aged 48
Also of MARY ROBERTS her mother died 14th January 1918 aged 66
ON REAR
Also of DAVID EVANS Blakemore Flat died 29th January 1918 aged 56
ON URN IN FRONT
RICHARD EVANS died 36 ** to follow son of David Evans**

Grave of Mary Isabell Evans (Roberts) Crowsnest Dingle/Blakemore Flat/ Cross Guns Crowsnest.