Jimmyt, there was a big divide between Church and Chapel - and lots of Dissenters all over Britain. Among whom should perhaps be listed the Catholics, who were new building in the eighteenth century, using a classic architecture not unlike large Nonconformist chapels. In Victorian times, the Catholics became much more imaginative in design. Town Chapels have their own distinctive architecture, shared in some places by synagogues.

In the village where my sister lived, there were many pubs, and no places of worship. Villagers had to walk to a nearby village, where there was a medieval church. The Baptists built a large classical Chapel, to the horror of the Anglicans, of a Puseyite, High sort, and they built a small chapel of ease, so the villagers would not be tempted to the Nonconformists. this is now the parish church. Outwardly, it looks like a small chapel of the dissenting sort. In the parts of England I know, there are small weatherboard chapels, tin chapels, etc, all over the place, often of very small, local denominations. I suspect (from some family history) that many of these were supported by just a few families, who had some reason for not worshipping with the other chapel along the road. Some of them are no longer used.

Which doesn't help Rick, because I don't think he wandered into the Particularly Strict Peculiar Elim Tabernacle Separation Chapel. (And I do hope there isn't one of those...)

It does sound as if he found one of the little churches that are found on very old estates going back to Saxon times, associated with either a large farm or a "Big House", where a Saxon thane once had his private shrine which became a church. So I would expect an old English place name.

Harrow isn't just an implement, it's a place name denoting a place of worship. And there's more than one of them.

Penny