Heathfield Chapel, Sussex -memorial?

[kerryb]

Thanks Toni

I know the very building now!

Kerry

[doogie]

little londoner,
  The chapel in question and regarding Rev james pert, IS THE PROVIDENCE CHAPEL IN FLIMWELL  NOT NOTE NOT  HEATHFIELD !!! The chapel in Flimwell of which he was the pastor is now a house. This house now occupied by the friend of a kind man who originally visited and seached, unsuccessfully, for the FOUNDATION STONE on which my direct ancestor's name was recorded
James was probably buried in Heathfield because there was no burial ground for his denomination in Flimwell He is recorded as a Dissident Preacher.

[LittleLondoner]

Hi Kerry!
I'm SO sorry to have sent you on a wild goose chase 
I don't know the area at all...

Hi Doogie!
Thanks for the info - that's really interesting. Off to look up a bit more on 'dissident preachers' - not totally sure what that means?! 
If you are able, I'd love to see your tree...

[kerryb]

Thats fine Little Londoner

I'm finding it very interesting, I imagine some of my Sussex ancestors listened to a few Dissident preachers, they were common round these parts.

I drove past the old chapel in Flimwell, the one in the link from Toni, it doesn't look much like the one in the photo from Doogie.  Are there two chapels in Flimwell Doogie?

Kerry

[toni*]

I drove past the old chapel in Flimwell, the one in the link from Toni, Kerry

is there something nearby to say that this is the chapel?
liek a house name Thee Olde Chapel 

[kerryb]

If there was I didn't see it but then I didn't like to take my eyes off the road too quickly.  It looks like an old chapel I have to say, just looks a bit different from the one in Doogie's photo.

Kerry

[toni*]

yes i agree the pictures don't look the same, the roadis nearer inthe roughwood picture and also the windows are different , the porch would have been there i suppose when it was a chapel, its not dismilar to the one at the church wherei live

[doogie]

I agree that the two photos are different. Obviously the brick building is a rebuild on the site of the original chapel. The Rev James would have been minister at the original. By 1901 the family had scattered.

[toni*]

yes the brick building was built in 1902 but still at that timea chapel and not a private dwelling.