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Bures
Free Church of Scotland
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(photograph taken 2005) |
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Another tradition which ante-dates the Reformation was that of religious dissension. In 1890, a group broke away from the rigorous discipline of the members who controlled the local Baptist Church and built their own Free Church in the Croft. Three men were responsible for setting up of this Church:- Charles Dupont
of Fysh House. He was the grandfather of Clifford Dupont the co-founder
of Rhodesia.
It was erected in the Croft and it was
designed at the outset with a possible conversion to a dwelling house
in mind. So, it had a continuous use as a Church
for 49 years. During the mid thirties, Sunday afternoons
would be taken up with small concert recitals with:-
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