The late Mrs. Lilian Smither, whose family,
the Westbrooks, are mentioned in the Parish Records as far back as
1653, remembered the church well:
“Just inside the porch stood a
mahogany stool given by my grandmother, Mrs. Louisa Westbrook, who
died in January 1900. Inside, the stations of the cross were all
around the walls and the congregation sat on chairs, not pews”.
Statues, for which Froyle is famous, abounded.
The organ had to be pumped by hand, a job more often undertaken by
the younger members of the village. Now all
that is left of Froyle's “Tin Tabernacle”, as it used to
be affectionately called, is just a name on a cottage, some old
photographs and a few
fading memories.
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