CRICH PARISH

which consists of the villages of Crich, Fritchley and Whatstandwell.

Grave of Isaac Petts

Burial plot D110

grave of Isaac Petts

IN

LOVING MEMORY

OF

ISAAC PETTS

WHO DEPARTED THIS

LIFE AUGUST 22 – 1886

IN HIS 63rd YEAR

WE CANNOT LORD THY

PURPOSE SEE BUT ALL

IS WELL THAT'S DONE

BY THEE.

Isaac was a monumental stone mason and builder of some undoubted skill.

He was responsible for Crich Cross and the buiding of the Baptist Chapel.

Local historian, Geoffery Dawes, wrote "The south-north routes – usually following raised ground – were intersected east-west at Crich Cross, the old focus of communications in the village. In 1857 the cross, listed as a market-cross, was then stated to be ancient. It was described by a local poetess, Ann Perry, of that time, as an old blackened wooden cross. That Cross was taken down and replaced, in 1871, by the present-day stone cross which was designed and masoned by a local man, Isaac Petts – to whom there is a memorial in Crich Churchyard."

Crich Cross photo of Baptist Church

Crich Cross and Baptist Church by Isaac Petts.

 

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