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Methodist Church
Sir Lowry's Pass Village, Western Cape
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Click to view map Coordinates: | The original Chapel was erected on on a portion of the farm Myrtle Grove, donated by Captain Terrington, a 'generous friend' of the Wesleyan Society. The visit of the famous evangelist of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, Reverend Barnabas Shaw of 1847 04 27 attracted a large crowd of worshippers from near and far (Brackenbury Valley - now Somerset West) and at the conclusion of the service he announced the chapel to be called the Terrington Grove Chapel, the naming inaugurated with the ringing of a 'fine-toned' bell (also the donation of the Captain). More adjacent land was acquired by the Church for the provision of housing for the local community. When the new church was built in 1931 (now derelict) the old chapel functioned as a hall and Sunday School (now a ruin). An anecdotal story is that monies were collected for defraying of the expenses incurred by Captain Terrington by way of an advertisement placed in the South African Commercial Advertiser of the time but the Captain refused these and had them donated to the 'suffering Scotch and Irish' where famine was raging in their homelands due to crop failure, (the Great Famine, or so-called 'Potato Famine'). [Entry created from Heap, 1970:174-175] Books that reference Methodist Church
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