A little-used Methodist chapel in Stiperstones village is being converted into a home for a refugee family from Ukraine, reports BBC News.
Though it opened as recently 1993, Perkins Beach Methodist Chapel no longer has a worshipping congregation. Of late it has been used primarily as a retreat and conference centre.
One of the people involved in the conversion project told the BBC:
"We are united in our determination to rescue a traumatised family and look after them here in safety,"
In the 19th century the lead-mining communities in this part of Shropshire were an island of Liberalism and Noncomformity in a largely Tory and Anglican shire, so they were well supplied with chapels.
One reason for this is that many miners came up from Cornwall to work in Shropshire because the tin mining industry in their native county was in decline.
The website Shropshire Noncomformist Chapels has historical notes and photographs from across the county. It lists many current and former chapels in the lead-mining area.
Later. There's a JustGiving page hoping to raise £500 to support this project.
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"For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in"
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