Freewill House, Briscoe
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Freewill House, Briscoe
Image: © Christine Johnstone Taken: 29 Feb 2020
This ruin is one of the earliest Nonconformist chapels in the North Pennines. It had two chapel rooms, a home for the Chapel Keeper, and space to keep sheep in, as well as a garden and three small fields. It was thatched with heather. No-one is sure when it was built, but John Killen and Ann Addison, who married in 1746, raised a family here. The chapel was an important meeting place in the 1700s and 1800s, but was replaced by the Briscoe Free Mission Gospel Chapel in 1905.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.569726
Longitude
-2.03616