Plaque to John Skinner 1870
Old Chapel
To the manse
The manse
I made a trip today with my father-in-law to check out Ryeford, the village where Micah Thomas's first pastorate was. There is an older chapel with a manse at the back, no doubt where Thomas lived in his time. A more recent and large nineteenth century building exists in front of the older building. Inside the newer building are three plaques, two commemorating ministers after Micah Thomas and one commemorating the founding minister John Skinner. Neither are used as chapels today but are currently occupied by a firm that makes blinds. A little way up a lane from the chapels is a little graveyard with graves in various states of repair from the 1770s to the 1970s.
