The origins of this building lay with the Primative Methodists, who built the first chapel in 1859 at a cost of £32 2s 71/2d with the land held under a Cornish lease of 3 lifetimes. That structure, possibly wooden, was actually situated across the road where the old Sunday School building, now a private house, stands and was called Little Sump Chapel.
The first building on this site came in 1887 and measured 45 x 36 feet and was designed by architect Mr Whetter and built by Mr, later Sir Arthur Carkeek of Redruth. It owes it's existence to a member of the famous Tangye family who used to live nearby. Three of the boys, Richard, Joseph and George became engineers, creating the famous TANGYE Bros of Birmingham who designed and built engines and hydraulic jacks, some of the latter were used to help launch IK Brunel's ship The Great Eastern when it became stuck "We launched the Great astern and she launched us". Sir Richard later became a local JP and MP and gave £50 towards the building of the present chapel.
Formally opened on 9 November 1887, it has been enlarged & improved on several occassions with some intriguing ways of raising funds, including getting members fo till a bag with the number of coins equivalent to their ages, charging for pews and selling items such as lamps. They even charged two drunks 10s for disturbing a service - an offence under the Ecclesiastical Courts Jusidiction Act 1860!
The methodist chapel closed in the 1990s and the building lay dormant until it was taken over by a group from the Redruth Apostolistic Church in 2000 with support from the Redruth Baptist Church before becomming home to the Grapevine Community Church in 2003.
Now to the cache, a simple offset Multi with the final a short walk away - be careful if you walk along the road
1. What is the serial number of the Defibrilator: 00AB
2. Take the silver numbers from one of the two telepgraph poles closest to the chapel on the same side of the road - only one of them has numbers in exactly this format, but which one?. CD-EFGF
Checksum A:G = 30
Substitute the numbers in the following formula: N50 CB.(D-C)FE W005 CF.A(F-D)G
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