Fawcett ran a school at Bearley Hall and Ewood Hall, where he also lived, but in 1805 he moved to Machpelah to be nearer Ebenezer Chapel and leaving running the school to his son. It is a handsome building with a built-up arch on the right reminiscent of a small coach house. Before the houses in the row could be built, large sections of the hillside had to be cut away. They all have back yards and steps climbing up the hill, as well as their own water supply from the hillside. Fawcett named the house after the cave mentioned in Genesis 23, which Abraham bought as a burial ground. Fawcett had a vault built at the rear as a private burial place for his wife, who died in 1810. Her body was later removed and reburied at Wainsgate.
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