page_title: Hyssington
section_title: Mission Church, White Grit
hierarchical_section_title: Hyssington / Buildings and architecture / Mission Church, White Grit
caption_attribution_description: English: Chapel at White Grit, near to The Marsh, Powys, Great Britain. Serving the isolated mining community in the shadow of Corndon Hill.
context_page_description: Hyssington is a parish in the South-Eastern corner of the historic county of Montgomeryshire and borders Shropshire. It is now within the area of the Church Stoke community council in Powys. It is dominated by Corndon Hill. The church which is in the Diocese of Hereford lies just the north of a small village and is sited just to the west of a medieval Motte-and-bailey castle. This area was also the source of late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age battle-axes and axe-hammers, made from picrite that were widely traded around 2000bc.
context_section_description: So-named after the White Grit lead mines. This is to the North- East of the village and was built to serve the mining community which was just over the border in Shropshire. The Mission Church is a corrugated iron tabernacle of the later19th century. It has an apsidal east end, with Gothic windows and a corrugated iron bellcote. The matchboarded interior with its fittings survives.
caption: Chapel at White Grit
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