Not being a code expert and after not getting any response on this forum, I got desperate and delved into it a bit further and found a solution. For those who might be having similar issues with the child theme, here’s what I did to fix the issue:
In my child theme’s Style.CSS file, I added the following row:
@import url('../quest/style.css');
The WordPress codex for child themes says it’s not best practice any longer to use the import script and we are to use the enqueue script in the functions.php file instead but I found the import option works well and the enqueue option in the codex does not indicate if anything in the enqueue script has to be modified to my specific theme and I have no time to chase that up at the moment. Some examples would be helpful in the codex.
Hope this helps someone else ??