Rosemarie
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Exploring History at Chrishall Church
The following article was written by Irene Cranwell: If you want to see – and touch – real history, go into the church. At the back of the pulpit, in the angle of the wall, you will see what appears to be a little semi-circular stone shelf. Gaze upon it in awe, for you are…
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Chapel Gallery
Enjoy the photographs in our gallery below. Click on a photograph to see the enlarged version. Arrows will appear either side of the photograph so that you can move forward, or backwards, through the gallery. Or you can click the cross to the top right of the photograph to close the enlargement.
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The Vicarage
The Vicarage at Chrishall. The Church and its Vicarage seem such a staple of village life and it seems odd to think it was ever any other way. But in fact, as this article from Irene Cranwell goes to prove, The Vicarage wasn’t always the same house, or the house that housed the vicar, in…
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Historical Village Road Name Changes
Village road names have changed over the years. Below is a collection of the names as we come across them during research. If you have any to add please let us know. Abrams or Abrahams Lane The lane that runs from the corner of Broad Green down the hill to the Mill Causeway, Heydon Lane…
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Exploring Historical Field Names on Our Village Map
Below is a map of the field names traced so far. You can zoom in and out of the map using the plus and minus signs on the bottom left. This is just the names. The stories will come in due course! Names change over the years of course. Many of the names on this…
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One of the real old type of sporting yeoman farmers
Looking in our newspaper archive the other day I came across an article about Mr Thomas Charles Pigg of Gentleman’s Farm. Published in the Saffron Walden Weekly News of May 28 1926 was Mr Pigg’s obituary which I thought might be of interest. Gents or Gentleman’s Farm was the old name of Broad Green Farm…
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Church Seating Plans
Robert Brand, farmer, who farmed Builden End farm in the 1800s was also a writer. He wrote down everything, and what is more he kept it. Although we only have part of his collection of papers he gives us a wealth of information about Chrishall, as well as other places as he was a bit…
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Unraveling Mr Brand’s Church Music Dispute
Before 1870 the church did not have an organ to provide music for the church services. Instead there was a church band. It seems that various people played various instruments, the most common being the Bass Viol, the Harmonium, flute, clarinet and violin or viola. Church band players Rev. William Way was vicar of Chrishall…
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Chrishall Women’s Institute
(This article was first written for the Chrishall Scrapbook in the 1950s. You can see copies of the scrapbook on our open days.) The Chrishall Womens’ Institute was formed in February 1926, and it has plodded on staunchly and steadily, without let or hindrance, ever since. During the last war, 1939-45, even Hitler’s bombs did…
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John Lucas, Village Constable
On a Spring morning, just over 350 years ago, we know precisely what one of Chrishall’s farmers was doing. Was he on his farmland in Church Road instructing his men on the crops he wanted planted? No. He was in Newport. For John Lucas, a yeoman farmer of Chrishall, was also one of the Parish…