Sileby History
Its people and places. A community through time.
BAPTIST CHAPEL MEMORIAL - Mountsorrel Lane
A chapel was at this location from the 1790s. Although a number of people are believed to be buried here, only one memorial remains. This is dedicated to Daniel Harley and his wife Elizabeth. The stone is badly weathered and illegible in places.
Sileby Old Baptist Chapel site, 2002 :
next to 24 Mountsorrel Lane
Sileby Old Baptist Chapel, 2007 :
Tomb and memorial in outbuilding wall
Sileby Old Baptist Chapel, 2008 :
Very eroded memorial to Daniel and Elizabeth Harley
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​[IN] MEMORY OF
[DAN]IEL HARLEY
[…]ACRED (?) IN THIS CHAPEL
35 YEARS
[WHO D]EPARTED THIS LIFE
[ .......................] 1834 AGED 72 YEARS
[............ ] OF ETERNA[L] LIFE THROUGH
[ .........] JESUS CHRIST [OUR] REDEEMER
ALSO OF
[E]LIZABETH HA[RLEY]
HIS BEL[O]VE[D] W[IFE]
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
[...................]5 TH 1860 AGED 85 YEARS
LIFE WILL [ .............] SHALL DISAPPEAR
[......... ] BODY TO [T]HE [...... ]E
[......... ] DEAR [.................... ]O ME
[JESUS] CHRIST WHO DIED UPON THE TREE
[.......... ] OFF'RING CLEAR'D THE (?)
[.............. ]IONS OF ETERNAL DA[.............. ]
[.......... ] WE SHALL SHORTLY MEET ABOVE
AND CEASELESS PRAISE REDEEMING LOVE
COMP [..........................................]
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The monument was transcribed by me in 1996 and subsequent
visits have shown a marked deterioration in the stone
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