ROMAN CATHOLICISM.
In 1931 a Roman
Catholic chapel was opened in Bisley village; the
village then had only 10 Catholic residents but the
chapel was also designed to serve France Lynch,
Chalford, Eastcombe, and Sapperton. Catholic
activity was later centred on Brown's Hill where a
chapel was built in the grounds of the house called
Templewood in 1937, and the house itself was a
Catholic nursing home from that period. (fn. 38) In 1972
the chapel at Brown's Hill was served by a community called the Servants of the Paraclete who
occupied two large houses in the village, Our Lady
of Victory (formerly Firwood) and St. Michael's
(formerly the Bussage House of Mercy), both of
which had private chapels built by previous
occupants; another house in the village was then a
Catholic convent. (fn. 39)
Footnotes
| 38 |
Langston, 'Cath. Missions', iv. |
| 39 |
Clifton Dioc. Yr. Bk. (1972), 37. |