burial of Mary Ann POWELL 1871 (General)

by slowhands , proud of his ancient Dean Forest roots, Friday, November 19, 2010, 19:05 (5123 days ago) @ sylviamorgan

Sorry if this appears to be stating the obvious

but Christ Church, Berry Hill is where I understand this to be:-

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/366872

Year: 1871
Month: May
Day: 9
Surname: POWELL
Forenames: Mary Ann
Residence: Berry Hill
Age_at_death: 65
Officiating_Minister: W.H.Taylor
Event: Burial
Cause_of_death:
Memoranda:
Notes:
Register_Reference: PFC82 IN 1/14
Page_No: 11
Parish_Chapel: Christchurch

Maybe an un marked or grave that has lost its inscription / headstone after 130 years in the elements !

CHRIST CHURCH, Berry Hill, was consecrated in 1816 (fn. 43) but dates from 1812 when P. M. Procter, vicar of Newland, built a school-chapel for his mission to the Forest. The site was acquired from Thomas Morgan, a coal miner in whose cottage, to the north, Procter had started preaching in 1804, (fn. 44) and grants and subscriptions towards the school-chapel came from, among others, the duke of Beaufort, the bishop, and the National Society. (fn. 45) The building was opened in 1813 and after a year or so was used solely as a free chapel (fn. 46) by people from the settlements around Berry Hill and sometimes from as far afield as Lydbrook, Worrall Hill, Hillersland, and the Lane End district. (fn. 47) To endow the chapel Procter obtained a grant of 5 a. in the Forest from the Commissioners of the Treasury in 1813 and, having raised funds by a public appeal, purchased 26 a. in Coleford in 1815 and Morgan's cottage. The endowment, which he vested with the chapel and its patronage in trustees, (fn. 48) was augmented by Queen Anne's Bounty in 1817 with a grant of £2,000 (fn. 49) and included c. 92 a. of glebe in Coleford in 1840. (fn. 50) It provided an income of £140 in 1832 (fn. 51) and £118 10s. 6d. in 1842. (fn. 52) Procter, who paid part of his debt arising from the chapel's foundation with £500 in grants obtained in 1818 with the help of Nicholas Vansittart, Chancellor of the Exchequer, (fn. 53) was minister until his death in 1822. His successors, sometimes described as perpetual curates, included from 1824 T. R. Garnsey (d. 1847), who held weekday meetings in the Lane End district, Joyford, and elsewhere. (fn. 54)

In 1844 Christ Church was assigned a district or parish extending to Mirystock, Cannop, and Broadwell Lane End. (fn. 55) It lost Broadwell in 1890 to the ecclesiastical parish of Coleford. (fn. 56) Under the Act of 1842 the patronage of Christ Church was transferred to the Crown and the chapel became a perpetual curacy with an income increased to £150 by an endowment from the Commissioners of Woods. (fn. 57) The benefice, later styled a vicarage, (fn. 58) was united with English Bicknor in 1972. The patronage of the new benefice was shared by the Crown and the Society for the Maintenance of the Faith, the latter having the right to fill the second of every four vacancies. (fn. 59) Christ Church vicarage house in what had been Thomas Morgan's cottage, enlarged c. 1840 (fn. 60) with later additions, was retained for the benefice in 1972. (fn. 61) By 1989 it was used for retreats and conferences, (fn. 62) the incumbent living in a new bungalow south of the church.
The original church, on the road between Coleford and English Bicknor, was the schoolchapel of 1812, a simple building with a west bellcot. (fn. 63) The chapel became a north aisle in 1815 when a new nave was added to double its size and a west gallery was erected. A west tower, designed by the Revd. Henry Poole, was added a few years after 1819 (fn. 64) and a chancel with octagonal apse and north organ chamber, designed by the firm of Waller, Son, and Wood for the vicar, Christopher Barnes, in 1884 and 1885. (fn. 65) The church was restored in 1913, when a south-west vestry was added, the gallery removed, the nave repewed, and a chancel screen erected; the screen was removed before 1966. (fn. 66) The church has one bell (fn. 67) and its font is similar to that provided for the church which Henry Poole built at Parkend in the early 1820s. (fn. 68)

From: 'Forest of Dean: Churches', A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp. 389-396. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=23271 Date accessed: 19 November 2010.

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