The Peculiar People's Chapel
Mark Pierson (hello Mark - we know each other) suggests the Peculiar People's chapel was in the Street - but it was definitely situated at Hawbush Green, at least during my early childhood in the Fifties. I distinctly remember hearing services held there as the congregation sang with gusto and without the benefit of any accompaniment - it was round the corner from where I used to live. By the way "Peculiar" in the title means "set apart" not "odd"! The chapel sadly closed soon after that but the Evangelical Church filled the gap. I remember Mark's father John very well, though I was no longer living in the village by that time - he became a good friend.
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RE: RE: The Peculiar People's Chapel
During the 1960s I was an altar server at All Saints, Cressing, when Fr. Alastair Sandeman was Vicar. I am myself a C of E priest, though now a Professor at Yale Divinity School, USA. My understanding was that the Evangelical Church in the Street was breakaway from the older and strict Peculiar People's Meeting House at Hawbush Green. I used to cycle to Cressing, first from Cressing Road, Braintree, and later, from Black Notley. In the early 1960s I was frequently passed by a taxi carrying two elderly ladies dressed in poke bonnets and black clothes to the Hawbush Meeting House, and often saw an elderly man dressed in a dark suit and wearing a bowler hat, cycling to the same place. My recollection was that it closed c.1967. There was an article with a photo of the man with the bowler hat in an issue of the Braintree and Witham Times. It would be nice to know where the archives are of this group.
Comment from Bryan Spinks on Tuesday, 26th April 2011.