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Friday, 21 March 2014

Minsden

A ruined chapel of ease, St Nicholas is hidden away in a copse off the beaten track and is only accessible by foot. It was protected by local historian Reginald L Hine until his death in 1949 and although he said that he would "endeavour in all ghostly ways to protect and haunt its hallowed wall" it is, despite being Grade II listed, slowly disintegrating. Its history can be found here.

CHAPEL. In ruins. The antiquarian will not find much to instruct him, but the picturesque traveller much to delight him. Situated in a coppice, completely surrounded  by trees and undergrowth. The fragments of nave and chancel stand irregularly to a height of Io to 20 ft. They are of flint and all details have decayed so much that outlines, door, and window holes now appear like designs in a Henry Moore or Hepworth style. Inside the building and closely around it is lawn. The ivy has been removed to bare the wall surfaces.*

* This was presumably Hine's work and is now long gone - the remains are now swamped by an entanglement of undergrowth.


Minsden chapel - St Nicholas (3)

Minsden chapel - St Nicholas (4)

Minsden chapel - St Nicholas (5)

Mee covers it in his Preston entry.

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