Burial plot D110 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 and Baptist Church by Isaac Petts. |
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