A visit to the Tramway Village in Crich revealed a former United Methodist Free Church chapel with the name Mount Tabor. In 2023 it is in use as a guest house. It is still marked as a church on Ordnance Survey maps in the 1990s but by 2010 was in residential use.
The datestone over the door reveals that it was opened in 1864. The churchdb.gukutils.org.uk database suggests that it was built by men who worked in the local quarry in their own time before and after work.
Prior to the opening of the Board school in Crich, the lower floor of the building may have been used as a day school.
What’s the story of the chapel and its people?
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We lived in the cottage also but had to move when my sister was born in 1972, we moved to chase view.
We grew up going to the chapel on Sundays that was run by my grandma Doreen Mason who also played the big organ there. We had concerts there and sat on a made up stand in the corner.
Mr Dawson conducted for us.
Me and my wife visited the chapel and stayed the night there.
Apparently the organ was too big to take out so it was boxed in when they turned it into a b&b.
I used to live in the cottage (8 Bowns Hill) next to the chapel as a kid, I remember going to Sunday school there. From what I remember being told, my GG grandfather was one of the builders of the church.
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