The former Congregational Chapel on the corner of Chauntry Road and West Street is currently a place of worship for Alford Community Church.

September 2018

This building on South Street was opened by the Primitive Methodists in 1837. It was enlarged in 1856 and a schoolroom added in 1873.

In the early 1940s the congregation joined with the former Wesleyans in the West Street chapel.

November 2018

This impressive Methodist Chapel on West Street was opened in 1865 following the closure of the chapel in Chapel Street. The architect was William Botterill* of Hull.

Structural problems in the 1980s brought about the sale of the chapel for commercial use. The Alford Methodist comunity use the Sunday school rooms to the rear.

September 2018

* William Botterill (1820-1903) was a prominent architect. He and his son were responsible for several public buildings in Hull and elsewhere in the country. He was the architect for the much admired Centenary Methodist Chapel in Market Rasen.

"The former Victorian Methodist chapel uses yellow brick dressings to contrast with the three bays of redbrick pilasters enclosing arch-headed windows.

It has a boldly dentilled gable front with finials to either side, but the ground floor has been insensitively altered to provide a garage door"

http://www.northlincs.gov.uk/EasySiteWeb/GatewayLink.aspx?alId=5708 

Inscription above the central window has been obliterated. From the rear it is evident that many roof tiles have slipped and the building is in poor condition.

DB 15 July 2018

"Chapel. 1840 on datestone"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1241764  

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Scunthorpe Circuit Past And Present" prepared By Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn G White March 1997 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"A Society was formed in 1769 and the first chapel built in 1811/12 on the corner of Chapel Close in Front Street.

It was enlarged in 1840, the interior altered in 1994 and is now a Grade II listed building. The chapel is still in use with a membership of 15" 

DB 15 July 2018

The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Althorpe, opened in 1864, is built in contrasting red and pale cream brick.

September 2010

The former Free Methodist / United Methodist chapel was erected in 1854 and closed in 1934, shortly after the union of Methodist churches in 1932.

September 2020

The chapel on Highbridge Road was opened in 1836; a Sunday school was added in 1895.

September 2020

The former Primitive Methodist chapel, standing in Chapel Lane, was built in 1843 and later extended. The last service was held in July 1971 before closure and subsequent conversion into a house.

July 2021 

The former Primitive Methodist chapel, standing in Chapel Lane, was built in 1843 and later extended.

The last service was held in July 1971 before closure and subsequent conversion into a house.

July 2021 

The Wesleyan Methodist chapel built in 1846, was originally known as Sutterton Fen. (It is at TF 212491)

It was rebuilt in 1877 and closed for worship in 1915. 

Note: This area is also known as Sutterton Drove 

July 2021 

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 it is stated that :-

"A dwelling house was licensed for worship in 1804 and the first chapel built in 1843.

It was replaced in 1886 and is now a bungalow in Chapel Lane.

The stone laying for the second chapel, in Main Road, occurred on the 10.10.1885.

The chapel is still in use, with a membership of 6, but expected to close in 1996"

DB 25 January 2020

A Methodist society was first established in this village in 1787. This chapel, the second for the Wesleyans here, was opened in August 1885

September 2015

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Bourne Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Gerry Burrows states :-

"i) A chapel was built in 1863 by the side of a brook and rebuilt in 1882. After its closure became a baker's store but has since been demolished.

ii) The second chapel, in Temple Road was purchased from Mr Smith of Aslackby for £200 in early 1903 and may have been previously used by the Baptists. It closed in 1985 and is now a dwelling house" 

DB 20 August 2020

This derelict chapel, which closed for worship in 1996, was the second chapel built on this site for the Wesleyan Methodists.

It dates from 1842.

Chris Squires, 2021 

Jean Howard, 2 May 2021

This tiny chapel in a remote spot was built for the Wesleyans in 1857. A porch was added in 1957 to mark the centenary of the chapel.

August 2015

See other images of this church

The current Methodist Church in Church Lane was built in 1903 as the lecture hall and Sunday School for the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.

The original chapel, which stood behind the current building, was demolished in 1973.

May 2010

The Wesleyan Chapel of 1837 replaced a building of 1809. Its front was a later rebuilding. Inside was a gallery of four sides supported on cast iron columns. It fell out of use in the 1960s and was demolished in 1973.

The current Methodist chapel is the former Sunday schoolroom in the right foreground.

Postcard sent from Lincoln in 1916 

The former Primitive Methodist Chapel in Wragby Road was built in 1858, as indicated by the date plaque over the door. It ceased to be used as a chapel in the 1950s.

Pearl Wheatley, 2010

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Grantham Circuit" Revised August 1998 Colin Shepherdson and Allen Griffin state :-

"The Society was formed in 1812 and the West Street chapel opened on the 6.10.1832. It is still in use with a membership of 9" 

Unfortunately chapel closed in 2002, although the congregation continued to meet in the Village Hall until 2013.

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Barkston-Chapel--Wesleyan-Methodist-/608459.record?pt=S 

Geoff Swain Collection 9 May 1994 

The Wesleyan Methodists have had a chapel in West Street since 1830.

The present building was opened in 1879 to which were added schoolrooms in the early twentieth century.

August 2018

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Barton-On-Humber Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised May 1998) states :- 

"Ferry Road chapel was erected in 1877. It closed in 1994 and permission to sell was given in 1995. It is now standing disused"

Geoff Swain Collection 28 August 1994

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Barton-On-Humber Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised May 1998) states :- 

"A barn was registered for worship in September 1819 and a chapel built in 1833, also in the High Street, with a gallery being added in 1849.

A Sunday school was erected in 1853.

The last service was held on the 11.4.1943 and the chapel sold before 1947.

It is now in use as a village hall"

Geoff Swain Collection 28 August 1994

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Barton-On-Humber Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised May 1998) states :- 

"A Society was formed in 1769 and a chapel built in the High Street in 1780.

It was enlarged in 1803 but was replaced in 1817 on the same site.

A Sunday school added in 1838.

This chapel was demolished to make way for a third chapel which was opened, again on the same site, in 1868.

A new kitchen and toilets were added in 1973.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 59" 

Geoff Swain Collection 28 August 1994

The Wesleyan Methodists built this chapel in 1871 alongside the minor road to Burnham and Melton Ross close to the junction with the B1206 (at TA 049190).

The last service was held in 1968 and the building has since been incorporated in a modern dwelling.

August 2021 

The Primitive Methodist Chapel in Queen Street was the third to be built in Barton. Joseph Wright of Hull was the architect and it opened in March 1868.

Following closure as a Methodist chapel in 1961, it was used by the Salvation Army. Today it is owned by the Queen Street School Preservation Trust and has been refurbished as a community hall. It is known as the Joseph Wright Hall.

September 2017

This chapel was built for the Wesleyan Methodists in 1861 on the site of an early 19th century chapel.

It was originally named the Wesley Chapel.

March 2016

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Barton-On-Humber Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised May 1998) it is stated that :-

"The chapel in Waterside was opened on the 27.5.1868 and a Sunday school added and opened on the 9.11.1882.

The last service held on the 29.3.1959.

The premises were subsequently used by the Boys' Brigade but were put up for sale in 1990.

It was sold in 1997 and is now bricked up and disused"

Geoff Swain Collection 17 August 1993

The chapel at Bassingham was built for the Wesleyan Methodists in 1839.

It is unexpectedly large (500 'sittings') for a village with a population below 1000.

August 2016

This was the second Wesleyan Methodist chapel on Main Road. It opened in 1877 and closed for worship in 1935.

It has since been used as garage premises.

April 2019

Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel now the Village Hall.

Date tablet is indecipherable.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1937 mentions the chapel but its date of closure is unknown.

White's Directory of 1856 mentions "a small Wesleyan Chapel" but this is probably an earlier building.

DB 8 October 2018

Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, in Chapel Lane, now a private house, was last used for worship in 1991.

Inscription states the chapel was erected in 1871; the opening service was held on 6 June 1872.

DB 3 September 2018

This Primitive Methodist Chapel opened in 1838 and initially closed in 1890.

However, for some reason the local "cause" revived and the chapel reopened for a short period between 1908 and 1915 but then it finally closed as a place of worship.

The building was sold in 1918 and was converted into a dwelling, "Rose Cottage".

It is located at the junction of Sea End Road and Spicer's Lane (TF 408 461)

Reported in "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Spalding Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Norman Leveritt September 1997 (Revised August 1988) that :-

"The Society had exclusive use of a room in a dwelling house as a place of worship from 1835 to 1854 when the first chapel was built. The room then continued in use as a Sunday school.

The foundation stone for a second chapel, built adjacent to the old one in School Lane, was laid on the 11.8.1908 and the building opened on the 5.12.1908.

The architect for the new chapel was Mr Greenfield of Sleaford.

The old chapel continued in use as a Sunday school and the premises are still in use with a membership of 20"

DB 8 August 2022

Text above the window reads "PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHURCH 1908".

DB 8 August 2022

View of the Church and Sunday School.

DB 8 August 2022

Reported in "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Spalding Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Norman Leveritt September 1997 (Revised August 1988) that :-

"i) A house was registered by the Wesleyans for worship in 1780 and their first chapel built in 1811.

ii) A new chapel was built for the Wesleyans in the High Street in 1846 and was later taken over by the Free Methodists. The chapel closed circa 1912 and is now, although much altered, a dwelling house "Chapel Cottage""

DB 1 September 2022

Former chapel in Chapel Street now a private residence. 

Colin Shepherdson in A Brief History of the Bourne Circuit states that

"The Society was formed in 1802 and the first chapel built in Chapel Street in 1829, and enlarged in 1858.

It was replaced by High Street chapel in 1906 but not sold until 1929 and is now converted into a dwelling house"

High Street chapel was demolished in June 1995

DB 7 November 2020 

Built in the late eighteenth century with later additions, Bethel Baptist Chapel is Grade II listed.

It remains in active use as a place of worship.

April 2018

The date stone, missing in this image but which has subsequently been replaced, reads "PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL 1850 RENOVATED 2017" 

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-

"The first chapel was erected in 1851, in West Street, and is now in use as a storehouse"

The front of the building, facing onto West Street, formally had a central doorway but no windows.

DB 25 June 2018

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-

"The second chapel was erected in the High Street in 1912 and closed on the 6.1.1996.

The chapel is currently standing empty" 

Now in use as a private house.

DB 13 June 2020 

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-

"i) A dwelling house was licensed for worship in 1793.

The Society subsequently rented a chapel, erected in 1817, but in 1832 they built their own chapel in King Street.

This chapel has since been demolished.

ii) The second chapel, in Victoria Street, was built in 1867 but very soon had to be demolished and was replaced in 1869 by another on the same site.

This chapel is still in use"

DB 25 June 2018

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Market Rasen & Caistor Circuit" (Revised August 1998) Shepherdson & Mumby state :- 

"A Society was formed in 1855 and the foundation stone for a chapel, in Kirmond Road, was laid later in the same year, on the 9th August, and opened before the year ended on the 23th December.

It was renovated and reopened on the 31.7.1872.

The chapel was rebuilt on the same site with the stone laying taking place on the 1.6.1914.

The last service was held on the 1.7.1934 and the congregation then joined with the ex-Wesleyans.

The chapel was let to the Air Ministry from 1941 to 1946, and then let as a youth club from 1946 to 1954.

It was put up for sale in 1954 and sold in 1959 to became the "Queens Hall Village Centre""

DB 10 October 2018

"(i) A chapel was opened on the 27.10.1836 "in a lane off the village centre".

It closed with the opening of the new one, subsequently sold and is now in use as a garage/store shed in what used to be called Ranter's Row and now called Mount Pleasant.

ii) The foundation stone for a second chapel, in Market Place, was laid on the 15.11.1877 but the building not opened until 1879.

The last service was held on the 30.12.1934.

It was sold in 1946 for conversion in to a house and butcher's shop, and is still in use as such" 

DB 10 October 2018

Image shows the third Wesleyan Methodist chapel built on High Street in 1877/78.

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Market Rasen & Caistor Circuit" (Revised August 1998) Shepherdson & Mumby state :- 

"i) A Society was formed in 1769 and a chapel built in 1796.

ii) The building of a new chapel, in the High Street, commenced in 1815 but it was not opened until the 1.9.1816. ...

iii) The foundation stone for the third chapel, on the other side of the High Street, was laid on the 15.11.1877. Designed by Bellamy & Hardy of Lincoln. the chapel opened on the 13.6.1878"

Binbrook Methodist Church left its building in 2003 :-

http://www.woldsandtrentmethodist.org.uk/churches/1-binbrook 

DB 10 October 2018

Image shows the second Wesleyan Methodist chapel built on High Street in 1815/16.

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Market Rasen & Caistor Circuit” (Revised August 1998) Shepherdson & Mumby state

"i) A Society was formed in 1769 and a chapel built in 1796.

ii) The building of a new chapel, in the High Street, commenced in 1815 but it was not opened until the 1.9.1816.

It was used as a Sunday school for many years after the opening of the third chapel in 1878.

Some time later it was sold and is now in use as a builder's store"

DB 10 October 2018

Inscripton states "METHODIST FREE CHURCH 1865"

DB 12 May 2019

This former chapel, erected for the Primitive Methodists, opened in June 1875.

In 1949 the Wesleyan Methodists in the village closed their chapel and joined the 'Prims' to worship here.

The chapel closed in 1993.

August 2018

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Gainsborough Circuit" Revised August 1998 Sheperson & English state :- 

"A chapel was erected in 1822 and enlarged in 1840 and again in 1867, It was sold in 1891, following the opening of a new one, and is now in use as by the Victorian Club in Laughton Road"

DB 28 January 2020

Dated 1891 above the door. 

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Gainsborough Circuit" Revised August 1998 Sheperson & English state :-  

"The stone laying for the second chapel, in the High Street, took place on the 27.5.1891 and the building opened in November of the same year, An organ was installed in 1906 and the interior restyled in 1971. It is still in use with a membership of 19"

Unfortunately the chapel closed in 2003.

DB 28 January 2020

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states that "The Wesleyan chapel was erected in 1822"

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Gainsborough Circuit" Revised August 1998 Sheperson & English state :- 

"The High Street chapel was erected in 1827 and the last service held on the 27.1.1957 when the congregation joined with the ex-Prims in their chapel.

The chapel continued in use as an annex but was put up for sale in 1962 and finally sold in 1969.

It is now a private house, "The Old Chapel""

DB 28 January 2020

The Primitive Methodist chapel on Main Street was built in 1840 and a Sunday School added in 1857.

The chapel closed around the time of the Second World War and has been converted and extended for use as the village hall.

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Barton-On-Humber Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised May 1998) states :-

"Erected in 1813, Main Street chapel is a Grade II listed building and is still in use with a membership of 5" 

Unfortunately the chapel was subsequently closed in 2002.

Geoff Swain Collection 18 October 1993

Boston's General Baptist Church on High Street was built in 1837 in the Early Gothic Revival style of the period.

Pale buff (Gault) brick is laid in Flemish Bond.

November 2018

Former Bethel Baptist Chapel, Trinity Street dated 1869. 

Now Masjid Al Noor.

DB 31 March 2022 

Centenary Methodist Church in Red Lion Street, Boston, was built by the Wesleyan Methodists in 1839-40 and had an attractive facade with twin towers and a colonnade between them.

The church shown here burnt down on 29 June 1909.

After the loss of the previous church on this site, destroyed by fire in 1909, this church was built. The opening date was 30 March 1911.

November 2018

The Congregational Church, built in 1868 by Innocent & Brown of Sheffield, stood in Red Lion Street. It seated 500.

Pevsner (The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1st edition) has one word for it: horrible.

The church closed in 1972 and the site is now a car park.

From The Boston Album of Views, c.1900

A small chapel built in typical style for the Wesleyan Methodists in 1876. The last service was held here in May 1966.

November 2018

The Primitive Methodist Chapel was in West Street.

Photograph from 'The Boston Album of Views', c.1900

Reported in Kelly's Directory 1913 that "The Salvation Army has quarters in High street, seating 400"

DB 14 April 2022

The Unitarian Chapel or Meeting House on Spain Lane (now adjacent to John Adams Way) was built in 1819 and opened in 1820.

It remains in active use as a place of worship (5.00 pm on the first and third Sundays of the month). It is also used by other local community groups.

November 2018

"1835. 2 storeys. Simple classical front in ashlar with pilasters at corners ...  Interior - attractive iron balustrade to platform and pulpit steps"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1241973 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1889 states "The Baptist chapel, erected in 1835, at a cost of £1,700, has 500 sittings"

DB 8 July 2019

Chapel located in Burghley Street but unclear what denomination.

The sign reads "You are invited to a preaching of the WORD of GOD each Lord's day at 6-30pm. if the Lord will"

DB 20 August 2020

This unusual building on Eastgate was built as a Congregational Church in 1846.

EN, August 2019

Located off North Street behind the old National School. 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1909 has an entry "Plymouth Brethren, North street; 6.30 p.m"

DB 8 July 2019

"Methodist Church 1839 Thames Pilkington ... Interior gallery (dated 1867) with decorated frontal other victorian fittings, complete but unexceptional"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1260237 

Colin Shepherdson in A Brief History of the Bourne Circuit states that :-

"The Society was formed in 1809 and used a room in John Brown's cottage in Star Lane, now known as Abbey Road.

The first chapel was built in 1812 in Abbey Road, but standing well back from the road.

A second chapel, erected in front of the old one and which was retained for use as a Sunday school, was opened on the 23.3.1842 facing Abbey Road.

A gallery was added in 1867 and a new organ opened on the 17.11.1920.

The slate roof was replaced with asbestos sheeting in 1953.

Plans were drawn up for the erection of new schoolrooms and hall and the first phase completed in November 1958.

The second phase involved the demolition of the first chapel, in 1964 and was completed with the opening of the new church hall on the 23.5.1965.

The church was declared unsafe in 1987 and the congregation continued to worship using the church hall.

The church, a Grade II listed building, remained unused whilst plans were drawn up to make it safe, more suitable to current needs and whilst the congregation raised the considerable sums necessary to complete the work.

The church was gutted, repaired, made safe and reopened on the 6.10.1995 as a two storey building.

Plans to replace the balcony, which has been removed, with a floor of schoolrooms have not yet been implemented. The church is still in use with a membership of 110" 

DB 8 July 2019 

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Lincoln Circuits Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson (Revised October 2000) it is stated that :-

"The first chapel was built in 1872 and a Sunday school added and opened on the 20.10.1880. The foundation stone for a new chapel, built behind the old one in Grantham Road, was laid on the 19.4.1969 and opened in October of the same year. The old chapel was then demolished to make a car park in front of the new one. The chapel is still in use with a membership of 25"

Originally a Primitive Methodist Chapel. 

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 1994

"Chapel. 1869 by Robert Young with Dr Palmer"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061751  

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"a new chapel was erected in 1869 and will seat 450; there is also a cemetery of two acres, with a mortuary chapel"

DB 20 February 2019 

The former Wesleyan Chapel and Sunday school in Moor Lane, Branston Booths were built in 1911 to replace an earlier chapel built in 1847. They were converted into a house in 2005.

Pearl Wheatley, 2102

The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Chapel Lane, Branston was built in 1883 at a cost of £1100 next to the previous chapel which became the Sunday school. The lancet windows on the ground floor are as original.

Pearl Wheatley, 2012

"The Friends Meeting House is thought to have originally been a barn, which was acquired in 1673 and converted into a meeting house in 1701, when it was encased in stone"

"The building was donated to the Society of Friends in 1701 by Thomas Robinson, a prominent Quaker who moved to Brant Broughton from London in 1665"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Friends-Meeting-House--Meeting-House-Lane--Brant-Broughton/242481.record?pt=S 

DB 2 July 2018

"The first chapel in Mill Lane was built in 1812 or 1815 and was replaced by newer buildings in 1832 and again in 1858.

The large school was erected in 1852"

"The chapel closed in 2003 and the former chapel and school room have been converted to four residential units" 

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Wesleyan-chapel--Mill-Lane--Brant-Broughton/242488.record?pt=S 

July 2018

"The chapel was built in Maltkiln Lane in 1862. 

It is part of the Sleaford Wesleyan Reform Union Circuit.

The Wesleyan Reform Union has remained independent of the denominational unions of 1857, 1907 and 1932"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Brant-Broughton--Maltkiln-Lane-Chapel--Wesleyan-Reform-Union-/581833.record?pt=S 

DB 2 July 2018

"Brigg Congregational Church ... Ornate Gothic, rendered. Parapet and cornice. Centre gable with foliated finial, roundel and date"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1346766?section=official-list-entry 

Now Lovelle Estate Agency.

DB 10 December 2023

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Brigg Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn White September 1997 (Revised July 1998) states :-

"A new all purpose church at the junction of Barnard Avenue and Wesley Road was erected in 1962/3.

The foundation stone for an extension was laid on the 13.4.1963 and it was opened on the 8.12.1963.

A further extension was opened on the 4.12.1993.

The church is still in use with a membership of 66" 

Geoff Swain Collection 18 October 1993

This view looking east along Bigby Street shows the parish church of St John Evangelist with the post-war church hall in front.

Nearer the camera is the imposing facade of the Methodist Church of 1865. It was built for the Wesleyan Reform Union*, closed for worship in 1962 and demolished in 1966.

* The Wesleyan Reform Union, one of several splinter groups in Methodism, was formed in 1859. Churches were independent and self-governing; they did not join in unions of other branches of the Methodist Church. However, the Brigg WRU chapel became a member of the United Methodist connexion at some date in the second half of the 19th century.

Frith postcard, undated

The Wesleyan chapel on High Street was built in 1849. Exactly 100 years later the Primitive Methodists closed their chapel and merged with the Wesleyans in this building.

July 2019

Originally a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. 

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Scunthorpe Circuit Past And Present" prepared By Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn G White March 1997 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"i) The chapel was erected in 1834 in what is now called Old Brumby Street. It was replaced by Ashby Road chapel in 1929 and the old chapel demolished. The site is now occupied by housing.

ii) The foundation stone for the second chapel, in Ashby Road, was laid on the 28.2.1929 and the chapel opened on the 19.9.1929.

An old army hut was used as a schoolroom until a new Sunday school was built, the foundation stone having being laid on the 15.2.1953 and opened on the 7.11.1953.

The complex was demolished and replaced on the same site by the new St Marks Church which was opened on the 24.5.1962.

The church is still in use with a membership of 151"

DB 27 March 2019

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Scunthorpe Circuit Past And Present" prepared By Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn G White March 1997 (Revised August 1998) states :- 

"The Society was formed in 1781 and the first chapel erected in the High Street in 1804.

It was replaced on the same site by a second chapel in 1863.

The chapel was renovated and re-opened on the 27.10.1927.

A Sunday school was added to the rear in 1964.

The chapel closed on the 2.6.1991 and was sold in 1996. The chapel now stands boarded up and unused" 

Geoff Swain Collection 17 August 1993

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Scunthorpe Circuit Past And Present" prepared By Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn G White March 1997 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"The first chapel was built in 1823 or 1833, and the foundation stone for the "Jubilee" chapel, probably on the same site in the High Street, was laid on the 6.9.1868.

This second chapel opened in April 1869.

The interior was altered in 1961 and now incorperates fittings from Scunthorpe Trinity chapel.

The schoolrooms were opened on the 10.6.1961 and the chapel is still in use with a membership of 41"

Geoff Swain Collection 17 August 1993

This building, now the library of Caistor Grammar School, was originally a Congregational Church erected in 1842.

Distinctive features include yellow brick, Doric pilasters and tapered window and door surrounds.

The town's non-conformist graveyard lies behind.

Ken Redmore, 2010

This Primitive Methodist chapel was opened in 1868 and a Sunday School added two years later.

The last service was held in 1966 and it was then acquired by the County Council and used as a youth club.

As Caistor Heritage Centre it now houses the town's library and a popular café.

Drawing by Rex Russell (1916-2104)

The large Wesleyan Methodist Church in Caistor dates from 1842.

Alongside to the left is the former Methodist Primary School (1867-1967).

Ken Redmore, 2010

See other images of this church 

The first chapel for Kelstern and Calcethorpe was this building of 1954 on the roadside between the two tiny villages.

For more than 150 years the Society had met in private houses. The church closed in c.1988.

Former Baptist Chapel in Broughton Road.

Other images on the web show the building in use by a seed merchant. 

http://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Lincolnshire/Carlton-le-Moorland/pictures/1083657 

Now a private house and evident that two additional round headed windows have been inserted. 

See also

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayStandard.aspx?oid=242455 

DB 13 June 2018

"The chapel in High Street was built in 1863 and closed in 1986"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Carlton-le-Moorland-Chapel--Wesleyan-Methodist-/899928.record?pt=S

Ashlar tablet in the front elevation inscribed Wesleyan Chapel MDCCCLXIII - hidden by foliage in this view.

DB 13 June 2018

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.

"The first chapel was built in 1824, but was replaced by a new chapel in 1851, which closed in 1982"

https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/705/methc_caythorpe.pdf

Building now occupied by Decorative Country Living Ltd.

https://decorativecountryliving.com 

DB 25 April 2018

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Coningsby Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised July 1998) states that :-

"A house was registered for worship in 1797 and the first chapel, also known as Swineshead Chapel Hill, erected in 1817.

A second chapel was erected on the same site in 1843.

The present chapel was opened on the 18.4.1904, again on the same site, and the last service was held in 30.6.1996 when the membership was 6.

Chapel Hill remained on the plan until June 1997 and the chapel is now standing disused"

Image shows that it has now been converted into a private dwelling. 

DB 21 September 2020

Cherry Willingham Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built in 1836. The builders paid attention to detail and made this little one-cell chapel decorative.

It is in red brick but has yellow brick trimmings and round headed windows.

The plaque above the door, now gone, was very large for the size of the chapel - what did it say?

The building is well cared for now with its use as the Parish Council Office.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

The small chapel on Normanby Road was built for the Primitive Methodists in 1862.

The chapel closed in 1918 and after some years the building was converted for use as the village hall.

Primitive Methodist Chapel, Main Street, Claypole which opened in 1897.

http://www.myprimitivemethodists.org.uk/page/claypole_primitive_methodist_chapel 

Now a private house.

DB 24 September 2018

Inscription above door states

"WESLEYAN CHAPEL 1835" 

DB 24 September 2018

This chapel on the corner of Grimsby Road and Tennyson Road was opened by the Primitive Methodists in 1914.

It is a Grade II listed building.

June 2017

This is the site of one of the most devastating Zeppelin raids of World War I. On 1 April 1916 a bomb landed on roof of the Baptist Church Hall where men of the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion of the Manchester Regiment were billeted.

Of the men in the building, 27 died instantly and 4 were fatally injured, dying soon after from their wounds.

The current church was founded in February 1988, though the plain brick building dates from an earlier period.

June 2017

The Primitive Methodist Chapel stood in Mill Road. It was built in 1877 and was demolished in 1979.

The new St Andrew's Methodist Church is on the same site.

undated postcard

St Andrew's Methodist chapel on the corner of St Peter's Avenue and Mill Road was opened in 1979.

It replaced a former Primitive Methodist Chapel on the same site, built in 1877, which developed structural problems and was demolished in 1978.

The current church has buttresses on the north elevation (seen here); perhaps it will suffer the same fate as its predecessor?

June 2017

This, the second Wesleyan Methodist chapel on the site in St Peter's Avenue, was opened in 1885. It was known as Trinity.

The church closed in 1968 and was demolished in 1973.

undated postcard

The former Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Blind Lane was built in 1903 on the site of previous chapel, built in 1835, which burnt down.

The last service was held here in 1997 and it has since been converted into a dwelling.

April 2017

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Grantham Circuit" Revised August 1998 Colin Shepherdson and Allen Griffin state :- 

"A barn was used for preaching services from 1799 until another barn was purchased in 1815 and fitted up as a chapel.

This barn was sold in 1835 following the opening of a new chapel.

A "more eligible site" had been rented in Back Lane and the stonelaying of the new chapel occurred on the 22.6.1835 and the opening on the 6.11.1835.

The rented chapel site together with an adjacent site, suitable for a Sunday school, were purchased in 1905.

The foundation stone for the Sunday school, designed by Bell, Withers & Meredith of London, was laid on the 11.6.1908 and the building opened on the 27.8.1908.

The chapel was remodelled and extended at the same time and re-opened on the 9.10.1908.

The present organ was installed in 1927.

An additional room was added in 1994 and the chapel is still in use with a membership of 18". It is on Back Lane.

DB 1 April 2019

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Grantham Circuit" Revised August 1998 Colin Sheperdson and Allen Griffin state :- 

"Some part of an industrial property was registered for worship on the 25.4.1851 and a chapel in the High Street was in use by 1855.

The foundation stone for a new chapel in the High Street was laid on the 27.5.1858.

The chapel, to a design by W. Thompson of Grantham, was opened on the 17.7.1858.

The chapel was closed in 1948, sold in 1950 and is now a private house"

DB 1 April 2019

A chapel which opened in 1850 and held its last service in June 1964.

The building was sold the following year and for many years stood derelict and roofless - possibly only a wall remains.

It is located in Langrick Road, Coningsby parish (TF 245 567)

This Wesleyan chapel was built in 1843 or 1845 and enlarged in 1888.

A Sunday school was added in 1908 and the chapel closed for worship in 1987.

It has been converted into a house "Chateau Coningsby 1990".

It is located on Moorside Road in the parish of Coningsby (TF 246 580)

Barry Barton, 1980

The former chapel has been transformed. Some elements of the gable end have been retained but the centrally placed doorway is now part of a Venetian window.

A layer of stucco covers the attractive brickwork.

May 2018

There is record of a congregation of General Baptists in Coningsby and Tattershall as early as the mid-1600s.

The current building, dating from 1862, is still in active use.

August 2017

Website states :-

"The Chapel is only ten years old , it was once a doctors surgery, but a revamp enabled us to redesign the building to what we have today"

http://www.mysgw.co.uk/Page.asp?PageID=325&SiteID=197 

DB 5 April 2018 

Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Dogdyke Road which closed in 2007.

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Coningsby Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised July 1998) it is stated that :-

"The first record of a preaching room was on the 12.6.1755 and it stood on the northern part of the present Dogdyke Road site.

It was replaced by the chapel opened by John Wesley on the 6.7.1779.

This chapel was demolished to make way for the current one which opened on the 8.12.1825.

It was altered in 1906 by the removal of the gallery, changing the pulpit and pews, and adding a porch and vestibule.

A schoolroom was also added and the old one convened into vestries.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 58"

DB 1 July 2019

This former Free Methodist chapel stands on a tiny site, though well away from other buildings, at the junction of Lowgate Road and A1031 coast road.

Jean Howard, July 2022

The chapel was built in 1856 and a Sunday School added as a separate building on a site next to the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in 1871.

The building here was extended to the south-east as recently as 1991 to provide a schoolroom or meeting room with modern facilities.

The chapel closed in 2022. 

Jean Howard, July 2022

The original chapel building (to the left) was built with local bricks laid in English garden wall bond (three rows of stretchers). The simple dentil course below the eaves, the slim pilasters, the brick detail of the entrance surround, and the round-headed windows, all contribute to an attractive and well-designed frontage.

The 1990 extension (to the right) successfully reflects these features despite the use of modern machine-made bricks of random colour and their laying in stretcher bond (the inevitable consequence of modern cavity wall construction).

Jean Howard, July 2022

The date plaque above the main entrance. Perhaps the word 'FREE' has been obliterated at the head of the inscription.

Jean Howard, July 2022

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Grantham Circuit" Revised August 1998 Colin Sheperdson and Allen Griffin state :- 

i) A Dissenter's Certificate was issued in 1829 and the first chapel built in 1845.

It was sold in 1903, following the opening of the new chapel, and is now a private dwelling standing opposite the present chapel.

ii) The foundation stone of the second chapel, in Station Road, was laid on the 7.8.1902 and the chapel opened on the 8.1.1903.

A Sunday school was added and opened on the 9.1.1936.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 23"

DB 27 June 2018

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Grantham Circuit" Revised August 1998 Colin Sheperdson and Allen Griffin state :- 

"i) A Dissenter's Certificate was issued in 1829 and the first chapel built in 1845.

It was sold in 1903, following the opening of the new chapel, and is now a private dwelling standing opposite the present chapel"

Date stone reads "1846" 

DB 27 June 2018

The Free Methodist / United Methodist chapel for the two Covenhams was built in 1854 and closed in b.1980.

September 1980

The foundation stone for this Methodist chapel, which over the years served more than one branch of the denomination, was laid in July 1912.

It closed in 1983 and has since been converted into a house.

September 2017

It is located close to the B1183 and the West Fen Drain in Fishtoft parish (TF 327 471)

Barry Barton, 1978

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Alford, Skegness & Wainfleet Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson July 1998 states :-

"The first chapel was erected in 1842 on Lymn Bank [Oak Bridge] and was replaced on the same site by another opened on the 23.9.1888.

The last service was held in September 1994 and the chapel sold in 1996 and is now in the process of being converted into a house"

Geoff Swain Collection 15 August 1999 

The Baptist church in Crowle dates from 1879.

Built of rendered brick with quoins and arched windows, the building is described by Pevsner as "remarkable conservative".  Possibly it incorporates the earlier building of 1820.

Following closure in 2010, the church, together with its adjacent graveyard, has been for sale.

Ken Redmore, 2011

This chapel on Willoughby Road was the last one in village used by the Methodists.

It was built in 1853 as a Wesleyan Reform chapel, later to become Free Methodist and then United Methodist before the general union of Methodist churches in 1932.

September 2018

This chapel, built in 1903, was the third place of worship for the Wesleyan Methodists on this site in Church Street.

September 2011

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-

"i) A chapel was erected in 1833.

ii) The Main Street chapel was built in 1881 and closed in 1987. It is now in the process of being convened into a dwelling" 

Now a private house. 

DB 8 June 2020

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-

"A Society was established circa September 1850 and a chapel erected in 1859 in Chapel Lane.

The chapel was enlarged in 1870 and the foundation stone for a schoolroom was laid on the 22.7.1925.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 15"

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 1994

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-

"i) The first chapel was erected in 1832.

ii) The second chapel was built in Middle Street in 1884. The last service was held on the 21.6.1953 and the chapel is now converted into a dwelling house"

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 1994

"Money for the building was raised by public subscription and Thomas Wilcox was commissioned as architect.

Local builders Messrs Wilcox and Son were given the job and completed it at a cost of £315.

The chapel was opened the following year in May 1879"

For an excellent and much fuller history of Dyke and the Baptist Chapel please see :- 

http://dykehistory.org.uk/dyke-baptist-chapel 

DB 20 August 2020

The red-brick chapel in High Street was built for the Wesleyan Methodists in 1903. It closed in 1981 and has been converted to residential use.

October 2016

A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Horncastle & Bardney Circuit Past And Present prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Anthony EG Whiting September 1997 states that :-

"The Louth Road chapel was built in 1860 and closed in 1915. The chapel, which stands on the east side of the main road and south of the village, is now used as a store shed" 

DB 28 January 2023

The third Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in the vllage was built on the corner of Panton Road and Lincoln Road in 1925. It closed for worship in 1977.

August 2018

Date stone reads "PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL 1870"

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Scunthorpe Circuit Past And Present" prepared By Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn G White March 1997 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :- 

"Chapel was built in 1830 and rebuilt in 1870 - foundation stone laid on the 15.7.1870 and reopened on the 27.11.1870.

It closed in 1969 due to its poor structural condition.

The congregation transferred to St Andrew's Anglican church, in the High Street, where they still hold services with a membership of 5.

The chapel was sold by auction on the 15.8.1973 with planning permission to convert it into a house but it is now disused and bricked up" 

House conversion has now obviously been completed.

DB 18 June 2019 

Built close to Hobhole Drain at Lade Bank Bridge in 1855, the chapel was enlarged in 1891.

The last service in the chapel was held in 1969 and the building was sold later that year.

It currently serves as the garage for the neighbouring bungalow.

It is located in New Leake parish (TF 379 548)

Barry Barton, 1978

The current Methodist Church in East Halton was built in 1967 on the site of the former Primitive Methodist chapel of 1878.

January 2019

The former Wesleyan Chapel, designed by Richard Coulson* of Hull, opened in 1889. It is situated on Townside at the southern edge of the village.

The last service was held in 1953 when the two Methodist societies in the village combined and used the Primitive Methodist chapel.

It now serves a the village hall.

January 2019

* Richard Coulson, son of a farmer in the village, born 1860, was articled to the architect William Marshall of Hull, later working for Hull Corporation. In 1892 he moved to Ireland and worked for the Guinness Company. He died c.1929.

Entance to the Memorial Chapel.

DB 26 February 2020

This chapel, built right in the village centre, opened for worship in 1862 and closed in 1971.

For many years after closure it remained derelict, awaiting conversion or demolition.

The National Grid Reference for the site is TF 334 623.

Barry Barton, 1977

The chapel has been converted into a dwelling. One bay at the western end of the building has been demolished - perhaps to create ground space for parking. (Many chapels were built on plots very little larger than the footprint of the building.)

May 2018

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Gainsborough Circuit" Revised August 1998 Sheperson & English state :- 

i) The first chapel was opened on the 25.12.1819

ii) A second chapel was opened on the 10.10.1840

iii) The third chapel was opened on the 11.9.1870 in Back Street and the last service was held on the 4.7.1948 when the Society joined the ex WM's. The chapel is now standing derelict in Back Street.

DB 29 December 2018

The chapel on Boston Road (or Spilsby Road, New Leake?) was built in 1876. The last service in the building was held in 1964 and it was sold two years later.

The chapel was adapted for use as a garage/store for the adjacent house, "The Cottage".

It is located at NGR TF 402 568 (Eastville)

Barry Barton, 1977

St Jude's Mission Room, with war memorial and Women's Institute, Eastville.

St Jude's was built in red brick in the 1860s.

Postcard, 1930s

Alexander Kilham (1762-1798) was born in Epworth, son of a linen weaver, and achieved fame as founder of the Methodist New Connexion.

This branch of the church joined others to form the United Methodist Church in 1907 which in turn became part of the one Methodist Church in 1932.

This chapel in High Street, opposite the Wesley Memorial Methodist Church, was built as a memorial to Kilham in 1860. It was converted for use as Epworth's Youth Centre in 1944.

The building is Grade II listed.

October 2016

This impressive building was built in 1889 by Charles Bell* on a spacious site along with school rooms, a manse and a caretaker's house.

This is the north front and main entrance to the church.

October 2016

* Charles Bell ARIBA (1846-1899) was born and educated in Grantham. His architectural practice was in London and he built more than 60 Methodist chapels.

This Primitive Methodist chapel, built of distinctive local bricks, was opened in 1879 and closed in 1981.

It is now a dwelling known as "Chapel House".

The Methodist Chapel in Main Street, Faldingworth was built in 1897 on the site of the earlier chapel of 1828.

It was designed by Frederick Whittaker Dixon of Oldham, Lancashire (1854-1935). It closed and was sold in 2016.

June 2016

This former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel opened in 1931 - surprsingly the first chapel in the village -  and closed in 1967.

September 2018

Former Methodist Chapel on Lincoln Road, now the home of Stamar Electronics Ltd.

http://stamar.co.uk/about 

Chapel founded 1831 and closed 1967.

DB 19 June 2018 

The former chapel (now a house named "Pateley") in Chapel Road was built in 1859 or 1864.

The last service was held in October 1967.

May 2011

Firsby's Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Fendyke Road opened in 1903.

July 2016

The first Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the village was built in 1842.

The second one, shown in this photograph, was erected in Gaysfield Road in 1867 and remained in active use until the present century.

It is located at NGR TF 364 419

Barry Barton, 1979

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Chapel Road was built in 1839 in gault brick and converted into a house with new windows in 1967.

The defaced plaque is still there on the gable end to the left (not visible in this photograph).

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "Here is a General Baptist chapel, founded in 1681, and rebuilt in 1876"

The chapel is on the right in this image with the schoolroom building on the left.

A matching exterior front was constructed to the schoolroom which is of earlier date.

DB 1 May 2010

The Wesleyans opened this chapel in 1865 and it continued as a place of worship until October 1962.

The building was sold in 1965 and for many years it served as a store shed for Huskisson's (Transport) Ltd

It is located at NGR TF 367 476

Barry Barton, 1977

This chapel in Church View was erected in 1866. The last service was held in 1962.

After sale in 1966 it was converted into a house known as "The Old Chapel".

It is located at NGR TF 377 438

Barry Barton, 1978

This early chapel was built on Dicken Hill Road in 1836 and opened the following year.

The final service was held in February 1978 and it was later demolished with the site being incorporated into the adjacent field.

It is located at NGR TF 432 571

Barry Barton, 1977

The main Wesleyan Chapel in Chapel Lane (off the Friskney Eaudyke). A plaque above the doorway is inscribed "Wesleyan Centenary Chapel 1839".

A single storey Sunday School Building was added to the right of the Chapel (as viewed in the photograph) in 1951. It ceased to be used as a chapel in 2006.

Postcard c1940?

Known as Centenary Chapel, this place of worship in Chapel Lane was opened in 1839 with 360 'sittings'.

An extension for the Sunday School was built in 1951.

It listed Grade II* and is located at NGR TF 472 558.

Barry Barton, 1978

This chapel was built in 1822 at the north end of Tattershall Road.

It closed in c.1924, was sold the following year and was used as a store shed.

It is located at NGR TF 312 469 in Frithville parish.

This early chapel, known as "Mount Pleasant", was built in 1838.

Despite the nearby replacement chapel in the village, it was not sold until 1939, being then converted into a bungalow.

It is located at NGR TF 317 507

Barry Barton, 1979

The former Wesleyan chapel in Frithville, opened in 1899, is now disused and marooned in the huge yard of the local agricultural engineer (R H Crawford).

August 2017

Frithville's second Wesleyan Methodist Chapel opened in Februray 1900.

The last service was held on Boxing Day 1993 and the chapel was sold three years later.

It is located at NGR TF 319 506

Barry Barton, 1977

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-

"A Society was extant in 1820 and a chapel built, in Washdyke Lane, in 1825.

It was restored in 1899 but closed in 1987.

It is now a double garage next to No.18 Washdyke Lane"

DB 29 May 2020

On the corner of Ropery Road and Mercer Road.

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Gainsborough Circuit" Revised August 1998 Sheperson & English state :- 

"Centenary Chapel, Ropery Road, was opened on the 23.3.1910 and the organ inaugurated on the 25.9.1915.

Extensive internal alterations occurred in 1994 which closed off the gallery and organ loft.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 38"

Unfortunately the chapel closed in 1999.

DB 29 December 2018

This building is on Market Street and is "Dated 1704 to rear"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168215 

DB 18 June 2018

Gainsborough's Methodist Church was built in 1968 on the site of the former Wesley Chapel in North Street.

It was known as St Stephen's Methodist Church until 1999. The interior of the church was refurbished in 2006.

November 2017

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Gainsborough Circuit" Revised August 1998 Sheperson & English state :-

"Wesley chapel was opened on the 3.6 1804 in North Street/Spital Terrace and the Sunday school added in 1853.

A new organ was opened on the 13.9.1899

The last service was held on the 21.1.1962 when the Society joined with that at Trinity.

The new combined Society, named Central, worshiped at Trinity until the Wesley chapel had been demolished in 1966, the site cleared and a new church, St Stephen's, had been built.

The stonelaying for the new church had occurred in 1967 and the opening took place on the 5.4.1968.

St Stephen's is still in use with a membership of 75"

DB 29 December 2018

The Primitive Methodist Chapel was built in Beaumont Street in 1877. It is described by Pevsner as 'debased Frenchy-Italian'.

From the Album of Gainsboro' Views published by Amcoats & Co, Booksellers, Stationers & Printers, Lord Street, Gainsborough, c.1900?

Reported in the Gainsborough Standard on 19 December 2011 that 

"A NEWSPAPER report announcing the arrival of the Salvation Army in Gainsborough 125 years ago declared that, after parading through the town, church leaders "opened fire" in the Albert Hall.

It was using the military language associated with the church whose officers wear uniform and are given army rankings.

It was on 28th November 1886 that the Salvation Army began Sunday services at the Albert Hall on Beaumont Street, which it had rented for six months.

https://www.gainsboroughstandard.co.uk/news/125-years-of-salvation-army-1-4061379 

DB 21 August 2018

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 refers to a Unitarian Chapel

"the Unitarian chapel in Beaumont street, founded in 1688" with 200 sittings.

See also

http://www.gainsborough-united-reformed-church.org.uk/public/separatist.php 

Its address is Trinity Street.

DB 5 March 2019

Opened for worship on 9th June 1897 as a Congregational Church (Robinson Memorial Cong'l Church).

Became part of the United Reformed Church 5th October 1972.

Interesting and informative history available via the church website :-

http://www.gainsborough-united-reformed-church.org.uk/public/buildings.php 

DB 25 November 2017

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Beaumont Street and Roseway was built in 1804.

From the Album of Gainsboro' Views published by Amcoats & Co, Booksellers, Stationers & Printers, Lord Street, Gainsborough, c.1900?

The Methodist chapel in Garthorpe was enlarged in 1883 and an adjoining Sunday School (on the left) was built in 1888.

The chapel closed in 2010 and has recently been for sale.

2011

Jean Howard, 9 May 2021

Jean Howard, 9 May 2021

The former Wesleyan Chapel on Marsh Road was opened in 1885 and closed in the early 1990s.

July 2019

The chapel on Hillgate was opened for worship by the General Baptists in 1883. It was sold in 2010 and has since been converted for domestic use.

September 2017

"The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1839, closed in 1958, and is now a private residence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelston,_Lincolnshire 

DB 23 July 2018 

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Boston Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson October 1996 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

i) Bethel chapel was opened on the 4.6.1854 in Leagate Road just north of Newham Lane. At various times it was known as Wildmore Fen, Asgarby Fen and Thornton-le-Fen Windmill! It was sold in 1910 and subsequently demolished.

ii) The present Leagate Road chapel stonelaying was held on the 8.7.1909 and the opening on the 28.10.1909. The classroom and toilets were opened on the 2.9.1978. The chapel is still in use with a membership of 14.  

DB 1 May 2019

There is very little of the original structure of the former Primitive Methodist Chapel on the High Street surviving. It was built in 1876.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Caenby Road was originally built as the village (Caenby) institute. Following the closure of the chapel in High Street at the western edge of the village, it opened here in 1911.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

The Methodist chapel on Beck Bank was built in 1935. Prior to this there had been both Primitive and Wesleyan Methodist chapels in the settlement. 

This chapel was built shortly after the unification of the Methodist churches in 1931,

August 2023 

The former Primitive Methodist Chapel was opened in Chapel Lane in 1892. 

August 2022 

This is the former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, built in 1828 and enlarged in 1859. The last service here was held in 1956.

August 2022 

The chapel was erected in 1860 by Mrs Sands, then Lady of the Manor, and Francis Burnham Esq.

It is an attractive design with pilasters through the façade, and dentilled eaves below a hipped slate roof.

More information can be found at: https://www.mywesleyanmethodists.org.uk/content/chapels/lincolnshire/grainsby-wesleyan-methodist-chapel-lincolnshire

Jean Howard, February 2024  

Dated 1930 above the south door. 

Ordnance Survey 25" map published 1888 shows an earlier Baptist Chapel in the same location (Wharf Road). 

Lincolnshire Archives has records dating back to 1868.

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Grantham-Wharf-Road-Baptist-Church/617420.record?pt=S 

DB 4 December 2018

Referring to New Somerby, Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1885 states :-

"The cemetery for Grantham, Spittlegate, Houghton and Walton and Manthorpe-cum-Little Gonerby, which was opened on May 1st, 1857, is almost entirely in this district, and covers an area of 9 acres, 3 of which were added in 1872; the total cost was about £7,200, inclusive of two mortuary chapels connected by an archway.

The cemetery is under the control of a Burial board of 20 members, to which the parish of Grantham contributes 9 members, Spittlegate 7, and Little Gonerby 4.

The inhabitants of New Somerby have the right to bury here on payment of double fees"

The cemetery is on Harrowby Road.

DB 8 January 2019

Reported by the Grantham Journal that

"In 1972, many Congregational churches in England and Wales joined with Presbyterian Church to form the United Reformed Church.

In 1981, the URC united with the Re-formed Association of Churches of Christ and in 2000 the Congregational Union of Scotland.

In 2008, the Grantham congregation joined with that of the Central Methodist Church on Finkin Street, to form a Local Ecumenical Partnership, a joint United Reformed Church and Methodist Church called ChristChurch.

In 2011, the United Reformed Church building on Castlegate was sold to Alive Church, and the ChristChurch congregation moved to the former Central Methodist Church premises on Finkin Street, where it continues to flourish today"

https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/grantham-civic-society-column-the-history-of-grantham-s-congregational-church-1-6708994/ 

The church is on the corner of Avenue Road and Castlegate.

DB 2 July 2018

This is one of several malthouses between Commercial Road and Brewery Hill shown on the OS 25 inch map published 1888.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt_house 

It is now The Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses.

DB 3 June 2019

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Grantham Circuit" Revised August 1998 Colin Sheperdson and Allen Griffin state :- 

"GRANTHAM, SIGNAL ROAD WM 130/92.36. Opened on the 7.1.1932, using an old army hut, it closed on the 9.9.1950 and the materials used for Harrowby Lane Church (see below). 

GRANTHAM, HARROWBY LANE. - - 130/928366 A temporary building was opened on the 4.10.1951 at the corner of Harrowby Lane and Princess Drive. A permanent church was opened on the 14.12.1963 and is still in use with a membership of 98"

DB 9 March 2019

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Grantham Circuit" Revised August 1998 Colin Shepherdson and Allen Griffin state :-

"Opened on the 4.7.1886 and the last service was held on the 5.7.1964.

It is still standing and in use by the Boy Scouts"

DB 9 March 2019

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Grantham Circuit" Revised August 1998 Colin Sheperdson and Allen Griffin state :-

"Missioned and remissioned in 1817, 1824 and 1825 without lasting success.

It was once again remissioned in 1835 and this time a Society was formed.

Commercial Road chapel was opened on the 28.5.1837 and enlarged in 1876.

The last service was held on the 27.2.1966.

It is now in commercial use as 'The Electric Social Club""

Club now closed and building being converted into flats. 

DB 4 December 2018

Reported in the Grantham Journal 13 May 2015 that

"The Salvation Army has said farewell to its home in the Citadel on London Road in Grantham after 120 years of worship.

The local Salvation Army church has moved into its new home at The Old Barracks in Sandon Road.

The local organisation could no longer afford the upkeep of the Citadel, where it had been based since 1896, and said its final farewells at the weekend"

http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/salvation-army-moves-into-new-grantham-home-1-6742930/ 

DB 12 December 2018

The Grantham Methodist Society was first recognised in 1788.

Its members initially met in a room above a coppersmith's workshop in Back Lane, but by the turn of the century the increasing membership meant that new premises were needed.

The first Methodist Chapel on Finkin Street was built in 1802 on the opposite side of the road to the present chapel.

By the mid-1830s the members had outgrown these premises and they purchased a vacant plot on Finkin Street upon which to build a larger chapel ...

The building contract for the Grantham chapel was awarded to Messrs Greasley and Stretton who obtained the stone from Parker's quarry at Heydour.

The foundation stone was laid in 1840 and the present chapel was formally opened in 1841"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062522 

DB 2 July 2018

Now kown as ChristChurch a local ecumenical partnership established in 2008 with St Peter's Hill United Reformed Church. 

See other images of this church 

The Wesleyan Methodists built this chapel on the corner of Elmer Street and Finkin Street in 1803. A school room was added in 1816 and the chapel was enlarged in 1827.

It was replaced by the new chapel further east along Finkin Street in 1841.

August 2022 

The chapel stands in a bend in Chapel Lane. It was built in 1869 as the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.

The end and side elevation are nicely detailed with polychromatic brickwork.

Jean Howard, November 2020

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Grantham Circuit" Revised August 1998 Colin Sheperdson and Allen Griffin state :-

"i) The first chapel was built in 1836.

ii) The stonelaying for a second chapel, in Green Street, took place on the 9.10.1857 and the chapel opened on the 18.2.1858.

This chapel was demolished and a larger one built on the same site, in Green Street, with the stonelaying held on the 11.4.1873 and the chapel opened in mid October 1873.

The foundation stone for a new Sunday school, built across the road, was laid on the 22.2.1886.

Following the merger of the two Societies a new room was added to the chapel and opened on the 6.4.1990.

This was funded by the sale of the 1886 Sunday school site and also the Spring End ex-WM chapel.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 15"

DB 11 March 2019

Former Sunday School directly across the road from the chapel in Green Street.

Date stone reads 

"PRIMITIVE METHODIST SUNDAY SCHOOLS 1886" 

Now a private house.

DB 11 March 2019

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states that :-

i) A dwelling house was licensed for worship in 1824 and the first chapel built in the same year.

ii) The second chapel was erected in 1851.

iii) The stone laying for the third chapel, in Church Walk, occurred on the 3.10.1901 and the chapel opened on the 24.4.1902. Closed in 1982 it is now converted into a dwelling house. 

DB 4 July 2022

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Grantham Circuit" Revised August 1998 Colin Sheperdson and Allen Griffin state :- 

"i) Preaching commenced 1801 and a Society formed in 1803. An old chaff house was converted into a chapel in 1805.

ii) The foundation stone of the second chapel was laid on the 2.6.1898 and the chapel opened on the 29.9.1898. The last service was held on the 5.10.1975 and the chapel subsequently converted into a house".

Located on Dallygate at National Grid Reference SK927303.

The Primitive  Methodist Chapel, Mill Lane closed in the 1940's and has subsequently been demolished.

Geoff Swain Collection 9 May 1994

This simple brick chapel was erected in 1701.  Originally thatched, the roof was tiled in 1847.

Regular worship ceased in the 1970s but occasional services are held.

It is owned by the National Trust.

Frank Robinson, 2010

A view of the 1868 chapel which closed 2010. 

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Spilsby Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Keith Guyler (Revised August 1998) states that :-

"The first chapel was erected in 1833 and was replaced on the same site by the present chapel in 1868. Toilets and a kitchen were installed in 1996. Sited in Main Road the chapel is still in use with a membership of 14"

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 2002

Jean Howard, 21 March 2021

Jean Howard, 21 March 2021

"Baptist witness and worship in Grimsby began in 1822 with the first chapel and schoolroom being built and opened in 1824.

By 1826 a small group covenanting together became the first Baptist Church and called their first minister in that same year.

Numerical growth over the next 50 years led eventually to the building of the Baptist Tabernacle in 1876-1877 and this building remained in use until the 1950's when the decision to relocate was made"

https://grimsbybaptistchurch.co.uk/church-history/ 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"The Baptist chapel, Freeman street, erected in 1868, is of red and grey brick, and will seat about 700.

The Baptist chapel, Victoria street is of red brick, and has two small towers with pinnacles and short spires : there are 1,100 sittings"

DB 9 February 2019

Grimsby Central Hall on Duncombe Street was opened in 1936 by the Methodist Church as a place of worship and community centre.

It has always been a concert venue too and still hosts a wide range of recitals and productions.

June 2017

Built in 1907 by architects Bell, Withers and Meredith as a Congregational Church, it later became the Welholme Galleries.

Since 2004 it has been in use as a store by Grimsby Borough Council.

June 2017

The Salvation Army Citadel is on Duncombe Street.

June 2017

Bounded by Victoria Street, Upper Spring Street and Upper Burgess Street. 

"It was not until 1849 that an effort to re-establish the cause was made by the Lincolnshire Association of Independent Churches and Ministers.

Eventually the Hull Association was able to begin services in the Mechanics' Hall in 1859, and when Spring Church was built in 1861, nearly half its trustees were from Hull"

"Spring Church, by the Louth architect James Fowler (1828-92) cost £1,539, plus £450 for the land on Victoria Street"

http://www.chapelssociety.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Cleethorpes-and-Grimsby.pdf 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1869 states :-

"The Congregational church, Upper Spring street, is of red brick in the Early English style, and has a tower with small spire on the north side : there are about 600 sittings" 

DB 12 January 2019

Many Eastern European immigrants passed through Grimsby in the late 19th century. Some, however, stayed, and the Jewish population of the town increased.

The Sir Moses Montefiore Synagogue was consecrated in 1888 and was built "in a Byzantine style" on land given by Edward Heneage MP.

Frank Robinson, December 2014

About this former chapel on Freeman Street, Colin Shepherdson states :-

"A temporary wooden building was erected in the 1860's and replaced by a permanent chapel opened on the 4.7.1869.

A Sunday school was added in 1870.

The chapel closed in 1933 and the congregation then joined that at Duncombe Street.

The chapel is now Rayner's furniture store" 

The furniture store has now given way to the Skills Hub.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1896 states :-

"United Methodist (Free), Freeman street, Rev. William Locke Smith; 10.30 a.m. & 6 p.m.; Thurs. 7 p.m."

DB 12 January 2019

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Scunthorpe Circuit Past And Present" prepared By Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn G White March 1997 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"i) The chapel, in Old Village Street, was built in 1824, replaced in 1929 and demolished in the late 1980's.

ii) The second chapel was built in Station Road. The foundation stone was laid on the 1.8.1928 and the chapel opened in January 1929.

A wooden schoolroom was added in 1959 and replaced with a portacabin in 1996.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 17"

Geoff Swain Collection 17 August 1993

The chapel in Hackthorn opened in September 1869; the Sunday School was added in 1881.

The last service was in the 1980s and it is now used as an office by Hackthorn Estate.

December 2015

For many years this tiny chapel stood in derelict condition between a pair of houses.

It now serves as an annex to the bungalow on the adjoining site.

May 2018

A chapel built for the Wesleyans in West Fen Road which held its first service in June 1859.

It closed for worship in April 1963 and was sold in 1966.

It is located at NGR TF 339 597 in East Kirkby parish.

Situated in Oak House Lane, this chapel was erected in 1894 for the United Free Methodists.

The last service here took place in 1971 and the building was sold two years later.

The building was destroyed by fire in 1985 and the site is occupied by Frank Clayton & Son, blacksmiths.

It was located at NGR TF 369 451 (in Freiston parish)

(Note: The United Methodist Church was established in 1907 by the amalgamation of the Methodist New Connexion, Bible Christians and the United Free Methodist Church.)

Barry Barton, 1978

The original chapel of 1837 was enlarged in 1937 and extensively refurbished in 1996.

It is still in regular use for worship (2023)

It is located at NGR TF 416 646.

Barry Barton, 1980

Former Methodist chapel now in use as a workshop.

"It was built in 1857 and closed in 1934. A defaced ashlar date tablet in the gable is inscribed Free Methodist but the date is unclear"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Untitled/238685.record?ImageId=5449&pt=S 

DB 8 May 2018    

"The first chapel was built in 1846 and replaced by a new chapel in 1873 which closed in 1973. It has been much altered and refenestrated"

http://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=MLI82023&resourceID=1006 

DB 8 May 2018   

The chapel on Mill Lane - actually just inside Minting parish - was built by the Wesleyan Methodists in 1838; they extensively modified the building in 1892.

The last service was held in 1979.

A relatively modern chapel, built in 1936 with an extension to provide kitchen and toilets in 1991.

Still in use in the 1990s

It is located at NGR TF 241 514 in Wildmore parish

Barry Barton, 1978

The first chapel on this site was built in 1831 and the second one, the current building, replaced it in 1887.

The chapel closed in 1985 and was demolished about five years later leaving a vacant grassy plot.

It is located at NGR TF 219 555 in Coningsby parish

Barry Barton, 1977

The foundation stone for this chapel was laid in 1909.  A new organ was installed in 1949.

September 2010

Built for the Wesleyan Methodists, the church on Low Road was designed by G F Pennington* and opened for worship in 1906.

September 2019

* G F Pennington, architect for Castleford Urban District Council, designed several churches in East and West Yorkshire.

"The first Wesleyan Methodist chapel in the village was built in 1809, but this was replaced by a new chapel in Saint Andrew's Street in 1835.

The building of the current church started in 1904 to designs by Nottingham-based architect Albert Edward Lambert.

It cost around £2,250 (equivalent to £222,476 in 2016) and was constructed by T. Barlow and Co. of Nottingham.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckington_Methodist_Church 

DB 28 July 2018

"Church House was actually built in 1835 as a Methodist Chapel, the second in the village.

During WWII it was commandeered as the NAAFI for the visiting military.

It then became the Reading Room, later a Sunday School then a nursery school and now has been purchased by the parish council to be used as offices and community information centre.

Until 1905 this street was called Chapel Street"

http://www.heckingtonvillagetrust.org.uk/a-walk-around-heckington.html 

The sign reads "Heckington Parish Council Chambers and Community Centre"

DB 28 July 2018

"Wesleyan Reform Chapel. 1852"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1061806 

DB 14 July 2018

"Methodist chapel. 1815"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1062547

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Lincoln Circuits Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson (Revised October 2000) it is stated that :-

"A Society was formed in 1815 and worshipped in a barn, now converted into a house behind houses in Chapel Lane.

A chapel was erected, or acquired, in 1820, nearly opposite the present chapel, and now in use as a Sunday school.

A new chapel, in Station Road at its junction with Chapel Lane, was erected in 1848/9.

In 1906 a porch was added and the chapel re-pewed.

A Grade II listed building it is still in use with a membership of 34" 

Chapel has now closed to worship and the building is occupied by Skeet Print a print management company.

DB 26 August 2020

This was the second chapel built for the Primitive Methodists on this site on the Green. It cost £350 and was dedicated in 1883.

June 2017

"Wesleyan Methodist chapel. 1859"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1360002 

"The first chapel was built in 1797 in Chapel Lane; it was replaced by a new chapel on a different site in Chapel Lane in 1859. The chapel closed in 1977"

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Hemingby-Chapel--Wesleyan-Methodist-/1098886.record?pt=S 

DB 3 September 2018

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Gainsborough Circuit" Revised August 1998 Sheperson & English state "A chapel was opened on the 11.6.1871 and the last service held in January 1938. The chapel is now a house".

Located at the north end of Maypole Street. 

DB 8 March 2022 

Former United Methodist Chapel on East Street.

The church's website (16 September 2020) states "Hibaldstow chapel was built in 1865, and is a small, friendly chapel, which is warm and inviting"

https://bartonbriggmethodist.org.uk/hibaldstow/  

Geoff Swain Collection 18 October 1993

Also known as Boston East Methodist Chapel, this building was erected in 1867.

The last service took place in January 1965 and the building was sold later that year. It still stands in the grounds of the bungalow "Springfields".

It is located at NGR TF 347 468 in Fishtoft parish.

Barry Barton, 1979

This small chapel was opened by the Wesleyan Methodists in February 1833 and remains in use.

September 2017

The Methodist Chapel here was built for the Wesleyans in 1898.

July 2019

"Church of England and Non-Conformist Cemetery Chapels, now Eecumenical cemetery chapel and store-room. 1854"

"2 single storey chapels divided by tall pointed archway crowned with tower with 4 stage diagonal buttresses with upper gablets running into ornate corner pinnacles"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1064493

See also Holbeach Cemetery Chapels Trust :-

http://www.holbeachcemeterychapels.org.uk/ 

Peter Kirk Collection, 3 April 1999

The chapel, originally known as Barley Sheaf, was erected in 1864 for the Wesleyan Methodists. It was extended and altered in 1958 and closed in 1993.

July 2021 

"Congregational chapel and attached Sunday School. 1821, 1874. C20"

"Chapel interior with gallery of 1821 intact"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1251763 

Located on the east side of Queen Street. 

DB 18 July 2019

Attached Sunday School to the rear of the chapel.

DB 18 July 2019

The church website states :-

"The first Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1786 in the district known as The Wong or Cagthorpe. It was replaced by a new chapel on the same site in 1806.

In 1837 a new chapel was built on Queen Street, which was in turn replaced by a new chapel on the same site in 1870. This chapel was found to be unsafe and closed in 1962.

It was replaced on the same site by the present chapel which opened in 1965. (During the re-building of the Queen Street premises, 1962-1965, the congregation worshipped at Holy Trinity Anglican Church)"

A commemoration stone was laid 9th January 1965.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 lists the previous chapel on this site:-

"the Wesleyan chapel, Queen street, is of red brick with stone dressings, erected in 1870, and seating 1,000 ; a fine organ was added in 1885"

DB 18 July 2019

The former Primitive Methodist chapel at the end of Prospect Street close to West Street was opened in 1854 and closed in 1961.

It was the third Primitive Methodist chapel to be built in the town.

April 2014

This chapel on Queen Street opened in 1870 was the fourth Wesleyan chapel in the town and the second on this site. It was demolished in 1963 when the roof became unsafe.

The building to the south, first the Sunday school and then a youth centre was added in 1877,

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Horncastle & Bardney Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Anthony EG Whiting September 1997 states :- 

"A house was registered for worship in 1797 and a chapel erected in 1838. The chapel was enlarged in 1860 and the last service held on the 10.10.1976. It is now a private residence, "The Old Chapel", situated on the corner of Moor Lane and Main/Bucknall Roads" 

DB 5 June 2021

The former Primitive Methodist chapel on High Street (B1434) was built in 1838 and extensively restored in 1883. It continued in use by the village's Methodist community until c.2000.

August 2018

Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and School Room.

Now the village hall. 

DB 17 June 2018 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states "There is a Primitive Methodist chapel at Hubbert's Bridge, built in 1871, and a Wesleyan chapel in Frampton Village"

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Boston Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson October 1996 (Revised August 1998) states :-

"The foundation stone for the Station Road chapel was laid on the 22.5.1871 and the foundation stone for an extension on the 19.8.1879.

The chapel interior was reversed, the front entrance was closed, and a new porch, kitchen and toilets were added and the remodelled building reopened on the 20.5.1978.

The last service was held on the 22.6.1997, when the membership stood at 10, and the chapel put up for sale, later the same year.

It was sold in June 1998 for conversion into a dwelling"

DB 21 September 2020  

The village's Methodist chapel, built for the Wesleyans, stands at the junction of the A1031 and the B1219. It was built in 1907.

August 2021 

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Spilsby Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Keith Guyler (Revised August 1998) states that :-

"i) A Society was formed in 1770 and a house registered for worship in 1775. The first chapel was opened in February 1834.

ii) The second chapel, in Main Street, was opened on the 26.7.1871. The last service was held on the 3.9.1995 and was put up for sale in 1996. It is currently still up for sale but in the mean time is let as a temporary store"

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 2002

The Wesleyan Methodists built this chapel on Sutton Road in 1857. A Sunday school was added in matching style a few years later (to the left in the photo).

In the recent past the building has suffered structural problems and it is no longer in use. The local Methodist community now hold services in the village hall.

September 2018

This chapel in Pelham Road was opened by the Primitive Methodists in 1911, replacing an earlier one on the same site built in 1856.

Two other Methodist societies in the village joined the local congregation to form a new society here in 1965.

Undated postcard

Immingham's current Methodist chapel (Trinity Methodist Church) was built for the Primitive Methodists and opened in 1911. The hall alongside was built in 1966.

September 2019

This colourful chapel by the roundabout at the corner of Bluestone Lane and Pelham Road was built in 1883 for the Wesleyan Methodists and was last used for worship in 1965.

September 2019

The former Free United Methodist Chapel was built in 1854 and remained in use until the 1950s. It is now a house with changed fenestration.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

The Primitive Methodist Chapel on The Green is now Chapel House. It was built 1838 and converted to a house in the 1960s.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Lincoln Circuits Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson (Revised October 2000) it is stated that :-

"A chapel was opened in the High Street on the 3.12.1835 and is still in use with a membership of 12"

Sadly the chapel has now closed. 

DB 27 July 2022

This is possibly the Sunday School of the former Wesleyan Chapel, built 1836. It is now a community hall.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

Former chapel in Chapel Lane is now a private house. 

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Grantham Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Allen G Griffin October 1996 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that

"The chapel was erected in 1863, and can be found along a public footpath off Chapel Lane and behind some modern bungalows.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 3"

DB 18 February 2019

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Alford, Skegness & Wainfleet Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson July 1998 states :-

"i) The first chapel (Irby-in-the-Marsh Wesleyan) was erected in 1838, closed in 1889 and since demolished.

ii) The second chapel (Irby & Bratoft Wesleyan) was opened on the 3.11.1889 in Pinfold Lane, Irby. A kitchen and toilets were added in 1963. The chapel is still with a membership of 8"

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 2002

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Alford, Skegness & Wainfleet Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson July 1998 states :-

"The Wainfleet Road chapel was opened on the 29.3.1838 and closed on the 24.9.1933. It is now a farm building"

The date stone above the entrance appears to read "1837". 

Located at National Grid Reference TF474632.

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 2002

This chapel was opened for the Wesleyan Methodists in 1861 and the Sunday School was added in 1885.

The chapel closed for worship in 1960.

September 2010

This chapel was erected in 1863, enlarged in 1872 and further extended with a Sunday Schoolroom in 1891.

The last service took place in July 1971 and the building, sold in 1979, now serves as a store shed.

It is located at NGR TF 366612 in West Keal parish

Barry Barton, 1977

Although long out of use as a chapel, generally neglected and partially covered in ivy, the building has - surprisingly - retained its original doors, windows and railings.

May 2018

The former Wesleyan chapel on the main road (A16) between West Keal and East Keal was built at a cost of £700 in 1862 and extended with a Sunday School in 1908.

The final service was in January 1972 and the building was sold for £1700 in 1976.

It was subsequently demolished but the chapel's boundary wall and railings survive.

It is located at NGR TF 371 634 in East Keal parish

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Grimsby & Cleethorpes Circuit Past And Present” prepared by Colin Shepherdson March 1998 it is reported that :-

i) Services commenced in 1780 and a chapel opened in October 1824. It was enlarged in 1829.

ii) A second chapel was opened on the 3.11.1844.

iii) A new larger chapel was built in Yarborough Road with the stonelaying taking place on the 10.10.1866 and the opening on the 1.5.1867. The architect was Mr Bellamy of Lincoln. It was enlarged in 1897 and is still in use with a membership of 66"

The first chapel for Kelstern and Calcethorpe was this building of 1954 on the roadside between the two tiny villages.

For more than 150 years the Society had met in private houses. The church closed in c.1988.

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :- 

"The Wesley Reform Union had a chapel in that part of Scopwick which was also known as KIRKBY GREEN.

The chapel was opened on the 13.7.1856 in Long Row, more commonly called Bedlam Row, and the last service held on the 23.10.1921.

The chapel was later convened into a wash house for the rest of the Row which was later demolished and the site is now occupied by the Braemer Mobile Home Park"

DB 2020 

"A rented preaching place was opened on the 15.1.1853 and their own chapel, in the High Street, was opened on the 1.10.1871.

The last service was held on the 19.12.1976 and the chapel put up for sale in 1977.

The chapel is now in use as a store shed"

A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Horncastle & Bardney Circuit Past And Present Prepared By Colin Shepherdson Anthony E G Whiting September 1997  

DB 26 January 2019

"The Mill Lane chapel was built in 1834 and closed in 1952.

Permission to sell was given in October 1953 and the chapel is now boarded up and derelict"

From "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Coningsby Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised July 1998).

DB 26 January 2019

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Witham Road, the second on this site, was opened in 1891.

The building became unsafe and was demolished in 1994. For a while the congregation met in the schoolroom at the rear.

Press cutting, 1926 

The Wesleyan Chapel on High Street opened for worship in 1885 and held its last service in 1976.

September 2019

Kirton's Methodist Chapel is on the west side of the main street in the centre of the village.

Pale rock-faced stone has been used on the facade facing the street; the rest of the building is constructed in less fashionable local red  brick.

September 2011

The Baptist Church on St Andrews Street dates from 1899; it stands on the site of the original building of 1841.

The building is currently used as a church hall for the united Christian congregations of the town.

May 2020

A succession of three chapels were built in the town by the Primitive Methodists.

This building, which stood on the corner of Queen Street, opened in 1862 and closed in 1937.

For a while it was used by the Salvation Army before demolition in in 1980s.

Undated photograph 

Kirton Holme is a secondary settlement in the extreme northwest corner of the parish, approximately 3 miles from the village centre.

The Methodist Church is a short distance from the A52.

This is the original chapel built in 1820; it became a Sunday schoolroom when the replacement chapel was constructed alongside in 1903. 

September 2011

The pair of buildings on Kirton Holme Road, a short distance from the A52 and about 3.5 miles north-west of Kirton, were built for the Primitive Methodists. This, the second chapel, was opened in 1903 to the left (south) of the first one.

The Methodists held their last service here in 1962 and the buildings were sold to the Anglican Church for £800. Two years later, after refurbishment, Christ Church CE church opened in the buildings. (Prior to this the Anglicans had worshipped in a timber mission room.)

September 2011

The Wesleyan Methodist Church in West Street opened in 1840 and was enlarged in 1875.

June 2013

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Grimsby & Cleethorpes Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson March 1998 it is stated that :- 

"A chapel was erected in Caistor Road in 1839. It was rebuilt and enlarged in 1877.

The last service was held on the 20.11.1956 and the chapel sold in 1961.

For many years it was used as a County Council Youth Club but is now boarded up"

Now used as 1st Laceby Scout Group Headquarters.

DB 8 February 2020

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Grimsby & Cleethorpes Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson March 1998 it is stated that :-

"i) Services commenced in 1753 and a Society formed in 1769. The first chapel was built in 1810.

ii) A larger chapel was erected in New Chapel Lane, with the stone laying occurring on the 21.2.1837 and the opening on the 15.6.1837.

Another even larger chapel facing the High Street and backing on to the old one, which continued in use as a Sunday school, was opened on the 13.1.1853.

In May 1971 the chapel was reopened following internal alterations.

The premises continue in use with a membership of 35"

Image shows the 1837 chapel which was latterly used as a Sunday School. Unfortunately the chapel is now closed and has been converted into a private house. 

DB 8 February 2020

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Grimsby & Cleethorpes Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson March 1998 it is stated that :-

"i) Services commenced in 1753 and a Society formed in 1769. The first chapel was built in 1810.

ii) A larger chapel was erected in New Chapel Lane, with the stone laying occurring on the 21.2.1837 and the opening on the 15.6.1837.

Another even larger chapel facing the High Street and backing on to the old one, which continued in use as a Sunday school, was opened on the 13.1.1853.

In May 1971 the chapel was reopened following internal alterations.

The premises continue in use with a membership of 35"

Image shows the 1853 chapel. Unfortunately the chapel is now closed and has been converted into a private house. 

DB 8 February 2020

Erected on Boston Road between Rose Cottage and farm buildings, this chapel was in use from 1871 to 1935.

After sale of the building in 1937 it was converted to a store shed for the adjacent farm.

It is located at NGR TF 396 544 in Old Leake parish

Barry Barton, 1980

The new chapel, opened in 1868, was immediately across the road from its predecessor (1861-68).

The building ceased to be used as a chapel in 1990 and was sold three years later, before conversion to a store shed.

It is located at NGR TF 266 476 in Holland Fen with Brothertoft parish.

Barry Barton, 1980

Also known as Langriville, this chapel in Armtree Road opened in 1857.

The last service was held in 1972 and it was sold with planning permission for domestic conversion in 1976.

It is located at NGR TF 266 485 in Langriville parish.

Barry Barton, 1978

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Scothern Road was built in 1819, probably as a partial rebuild on the site of an earlier chapel.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

The original Primitive Methodist chapel was built on this site on Scotter Road in c.1825.

The replacement building, seen here today, was erected in 1927.

September 2023 

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Gainsborough Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Jim English March 1998 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"An old cottage, off Gainsborough Road, was converted into a chapel and opened on the 10.11.1951.

A metal schoolroom was added in 1958.

A kitchen was built between the chapel and the schoolroom in 1966, with the old kitchen being converted into a vestry.

An electric organ was installed in 1974 and the chapel is still in use with a membership of 19"

DB 5 March 2019

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Lincoln Circuits Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson March 1998 (Revised October 2001) it is stated that :-

"A dwelling house was licensed for worship in 1822 and a chapel opened on the 10.10.1841.

The last service was held on the 3.1.1965 and almost immediately the chapel was put up for sale.

It has since been converted into two houses, numbers 27 & 29 High Street"

DB 25 March 2019

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-

"The Wesleyan Reform Union have a chapel in Chapel Lane. The foundation stone of the present chapel was laid on the 22.4.1967, on the site of an earlier one erected in the 1850's.)"

The chapel is now closed and is being advertised for sale as a residential conversion. 

DB 16 July 2019 

There has been a Primitive Methodist chapel on this site since the 1830s. The present building, the second, was opened in 1892 and closed in 1983.

July 2019

Former Free United Methodist Chapel on Bleasby Moor (in the parish of Legsby) was built in 1870 and converted into a house about 1970.

Pearl Wheatley, 2012

A chapel which was used by the Wesleyan Methodists from March 1867 until January 1992.

The Sunday schoolroom was added in 1900.

After sale in 1995 the building was converted into a house.

It is located at NGR TF 420 481.

Barry Barton, 1978

Situated on the east side of the A52 between the two villages, this chapel was built in 1858.

The last service was held in July 1981 and the building was sold in 1985 and subsequently demolished. The site is now part of a field.

It is located at NGR TF 397 472 in Leverton parish.

Barry Barton, 1978

The Lincoln architects Bellamy & Hardy designed this chapel for the Wesleyan Methodists. It opened in June 1880, replacing an older building on nearby Newport.

The Sunday schoolroom was built in 1898 and major remodelling work took place in 1966, 1977 and 1985.

October 2017

A modern successor to the Mint Street Baptist Chapel.

DB 20 June 2019 

The Italianate former Baptist Church at the southern end of Mint Street was built in 1870 by architects Drury and Mortimer.

It is currently in use an estate agents' office. There is a small enclosed graveyard to the rear.

Pearl Wheatley, 2016

This church was built on Birchwood Avenue for the Methodist South Circuit and opened in September 1966.

It has been redubbed The Life Church and offers lively evangelical meetings.

November 2019

Methodists first met in Burton Road as a congregation in 1891. The current chapel, on the east side of Burton Road between Mount Street and Mill Row, was opened in December 1904.

A hall for youth work was added in 1963 and major refurbishments of the sanctuary took place in 1972 and 1984.

November 2017

"Imprisoned debtors were allowed some social contact, but the regime for criminals was designed to be one of isolation, according to the separate system.

Consequently, the seating in the prison chapel is designed to enclose each prisoner individually so that the preacher could see everyone but each could see only him"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Castle 

DB 30 January 2016

"Pair of former chapels, now disused.

1856. By Michael Drury.

Gothic Revival style with pointed arched windows and Geometrical tracery"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1388477  

Old cemetery laid out by Henry Goddard.

Peter Kirk Collection, 9 September 1990

This church, with its adjoining Sunday school, theatre and meeting rooms, was built in 1905 by Howdill & Sons of Leeds in Baroque Revival style.

It is constructed in red brick with ashlar dressings, and slate roofs.

2012

Now located on Princess Street.

The Directory Of The City of Lincoln 1919 published by JW Ruddock & Sons states 

"CHRISTADELPHIAN UPPER ROOM, EXCHANGE ARCADE:- Ministers, various ; Service, Sunday, 6.30 p.m. Tuesday evening at 8 p.m., meeting for advancement of Biblical knowledge (at Coffee Palace)"

DB 4 February 2019 

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints now situated on Skellingthorpe Road.

Ruddock's Directory of the City of Lincoln 1919 has an entry "CHURCH OF CHRIST - ODD FELLOWS' HALL (Hall No. 2) - Services, Sunday, 10.30 a.m., 2.30 and 6.30 p.m."

"The Church of Christ was the original name of the Latter Day Saint church founded by Joseph Smith.

Organized informally in 1829 in New York and then formally on April 6, 1830, it was the first organization to implement the principles found in Smith's newly published Book of Mormon, and thus represents the formal beginning of the Latter Day Saint movement.

Later names for this organization included the Church of the Latter Day Saints (by 1834 resolution), the Church of Jesus Christ, the Church of God, the Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (by an 1838 revelation)".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Christ_(Latter_Day_Saints) 

DB 5 February 2019

This brick church was built on the Ermine estate at the corner of Sudbrooke Drive and Carlton Grove in the 1950s.

November 2017

Built in the early 1960's the church located on Trelawney Crescent has closed and is awaiting demolition.

https://thelincolnite.co.uk/2019/10/councillors-set-to-approve-ermine-church-demolition/ 

DB 19 November 2019

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Lincoln Circuits Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson (Revised October 2000) it is stated that :-

"A chapel was erected on the corner of Newark Road with Fairfax Street and opened on the 23.1.1870.

The last service was held on the 15.7.1951 when the Society merged with that at Lincoln Newark Road.

Much altered the chapel is still standing and is now in use as a shop"

DB 22 January 2019

The former Congregational Church on Gresham Street was built in 1867 with the Sunday School added by 1905.

Later uses included a factory but by 2010 it housed a surgery, a dwelling and offices.

Pearl Wheatley, 2012

The former Independent Chapel on Newland of 1840 is by James Fenton.

It was used as a British School in the 1870s and in 1876 Bellamy and Hardy built a Congregational chapel on the adjacent site.

Pearl Wheatley, 2016

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Lincoln Circuits Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson (Revised October 2000) it is stated that :-

"A dual purpose school/chapel, standing well back from Monks Road in Walmer Road, was opened on the 24.6.1914.

The church, to a design by B. W. Blanchard, was eventually erected in Monks Road and in front of the old building.

The foundation stone was laid on the 21.10.1961 and the opening held on the 1.9.1962 - the old building continuing in use as a church hall.

The buildings are still in use with a membership of 70"

DB 26 February 2019

A second view of the Monks Road Church.

The 1914 Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, fronting on to Walmer Road, can be seen to the rear.

DB 26 February 2019

Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. 

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Lincoln Circuits Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson (Revised October 2000) it is stated that :-

"A wooden hut, previously the Officers' Mess at Waddington, was erected as a chapel and opened on the 30.11.1924 in Skellingthorpe Road.

The foundation stone of a new chapel, adjacent to the wooden one, was laid on the 28.6.1952 and the chapel opened on the 11.4.1953.

An extension was opened on the 11.9.1982.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 84"

DB 31 July 2019

The impressive facade on Newark Road is built of pale brick laid in Flemish bond with fine arches in red brick and elaborate cornices created from moulded brick.

February 2019

This chapel was opened by the Primitive Methodists in 1863, replacing an earlier chapel built in 1850.

The last service was held in October 1957 and the site is now occupied by Rasen House.

undated photo

Rear view from Alfred Street.

Tower of St Peter at Gowts church visible beyond on the opposite side of High Street.

DB 4 February 2019

Church building located 12-14 Rasen Lane.

"The denomination grew out of the Millerite movement in the United States during the mid-19th century and it was formally established in 1863"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church 

Not listed in Ruddock's Directory of Lincoln 1913.

DB 16 September 2019

This chapel was built for the Congregationalists in 1902. It ceased to be used as a regular place of worship in c.1991.

February 2019

This chapel was opened in 1888. (The schoolroom behind had opened two years earlier.) The tower was added in 1908/09.

The last service at St Catherine's was in August 1977. It is now a heritage and cultural centre.

September 2014

See other images of this church 

A Methodist society opened a chapel, built of corrugated iron, on this site on Newark Road in 1903. The present building opened in 1953.

March 2018

Thomas Cooper Memorial Baptist Church.

This building dates from 1972 but the church has a long history in Lincoln.

https://www.tcmlincoln.co.uk/ourhistory.htm 

Previously based in St. Benedict's Square under what is now Marks & Spencer.

In the Directory of the City of Lincoln 1894 printed by Akrill, Ruddock & Keyworth the listing reads :-

"BAPTIST, St. Benedict's Square.-Minister, vacant; Services, Sunday, 10.30 a.m. and 6.0 p.m., Wednesday, 7.30 p.m. Mr. Morley, chapel-keeper"

In the Directory of the City of Lincoln 1919 published by JW Ruddock & Sons the entry reads

"THOMAS COOPER MEMORIAL Services, Sunday, 10.30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Thursday, 7 p.m. Minister, Rev. C. H. Homer, 76 Hewson Road"

DB 4 February 2019

Formerly St. Andrew's With Newland URC.

"The Church building was dedicated in 1963 and is of a modern design and construction, it being the former Presbyterian Church of St Andrew's in Lincoln prior to the formation of the United Reformed Church in 1972 when the congregation joined with the Congregational Church on Newland. In July 2013"

http://www.lincolnurc.co.uk/about-us/ 

DB 26 February 2019 

The Unitarian chapel was built on Lincoln's High Street in the early eighteenth century, altered in 1819, with late-nineteenth century additions.

It is built of brick, rendered, with stone dressings and hipped slate roof with a single stack.

The west front on High Street has a central stone porch with pediment and ball finials.

The Wesleyan Chapel on Clasketgate was built in 1836 to cater for the growing popularity of Methodism in the City.

Designed by W A Nicholson in neo-classical style, and with a grand entrance portico, the chapel could seat 1400 people.

Affectionately known as "Big Wesley", it was for many years the largest Wesleyan church in Lincoln.  It was closed in 1961 and demolished two years later.

Photograph from the book to mark the chapel's centenary, 1936.

The Wesleyan Chapel at the corner of Gresham Street and West Parade was built about 1907. It was converted to dwellings in 2015.

Pearl Wheatley, 2012

This 'tin' chapel (corrugated iron on a structural timber frame) was erected for the Primitive Methodists in 1923.

The last service was held in 1959 and it was sold in 1965 but now appears to be totally disused.

April 2017

The Free Methodist Chapel in Lissington was built in 1863. It is believed to be the site of an earlier chapel.

Pearl Wheatley, 2012

The foundation stone for this chapel was laid in 1896; it was the second chapel to be built on this site.

The chapel was last used for worship in 1971 and was sold in the expectation of conversion to a dwelling in 1976.

It is located at NGR TF 432 629

Barry Barton, 1979

The two stones admirably pinpoint the date of construction of the chapel and the date of its conversion to accommodation.

Jean Howard 20 August 2023

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Grantham Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Allen G Griffin October 1996 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"i) The foundation stone for the first chapel, on the north side of High Road, was laid on the 28.11.1838.

The chapel is now a private house, "The Old Chapel".

ii) A new chapel was opened on the 26.8.1858.

iii) A third chapel was erected in 1888 and the last service was held in mid 1953"

Date stone of the Old Chapel pictured here reads 1838.  

DB 25 March 2019

Inscription above the door reads

"Wesleyan Chapel A.D.1864"

In his "List And Brief Details" 1988 Colin Shepherdson states 

"A Dissenter's Certificate was issued in 1786 and a chapel built in 1822/23.

The Main Road chapel was built in 1866 and the old chapel retained as a Sunday school.

The chapel is still in use" 

A Primitive Methodist Chapel, erected in 1838 and rebuilt in 1891, was situated just a little further along Main Road to the south.

DB 3 November 2018 

Louth's sole surviving Methodist Chapel, in Eastgate, dates largely from 1835. The gallery and fixed seats were removed in an extensive remodelling project in the 1970s. It is Grade II listed.

October 2018

Former Baptist Chapel now the Eastgate Union Church.

"As the name suggests we are a church that is a union of two others. This happened in 1919 and means that we are part Baptist and part URC"

https://eastgateunion.com/about-us/ 

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states

"The Baptist chapel, Eastgate, erected in 1849, will seat 375; that in Northgate, built in 1802, will hold 500.

The Congregational chapel, in Cannon street, built in 1820, seats 500"

DB 7 March 2018

The Independent Chapel in Cannon Street was built 1828, superseding the former Countess of Huntingdon Chapel bought in 1800.

It was taken out of use 1928, first becoming a cinema, then offices.

Pearl Wheatley, 2012

The former Free Methodist Chapel on Church street near the junction with Newmarket opened in 1868 and closed in the mid-1970s when the Methodist communities came together in the church on Nicol HIll.

January 2020

High and Low Burnham are hamlets in the parish of Haxey.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"BURNHAM is a hamlet, consisting of High and Low Burnham, 2 miles north. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1872, and a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1848, but now disused"

The chapel closed in 1989. 

Geoff Swain Collection 10 April 1993

High and Low Burnham are hamlets in the parish of Haxey.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"BURNHAM is a hamlet, consisting of High and Low Burnham, 2 miles north. Here is a Primitive Methodist chapel, built in 1872, and a Wesleyan chapel, built in 1848, but now disused"

Chapel closed about 1875. 

Geoff Swain Collection 10 April 1993

Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel now Chapel Cottage.

A LIST AND BRIEF DETAILS OF CHAPELS IN THE SPILSBY CIRCUIT PAST AND PRESENT prepared by COLIN SHEPHERDSON and KEITH GUYLER revised August 1988 states that :-

"A house was registered for worship in 1799 and a chapel erected in 1819. The chapel in Main Street, was enlarged in 1842. The last regular service was held on the 14.8.1994 and the chapel closed in 1996 when the membership was 4. It is currently sanding unused" 

DB 4 September 2022

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Alford, Skegness & Wainfleet Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson July 1998 it is stated that :-

"i) The foundation stone for a chapel was laid on the 7.8.1837.

Situated on the sea bank, due east of the present chapel and just around the corner from the High Street in what is now Quebec Road, it opened later the same year.

Following closure it was used as a store and was finally demolished in 1959.

ii) The Society moved from the above chapel in to new schoolrooms in Victoria Road on the 3.7.1887.

A chapel was added and opened on the 28.10.1909.

It was damaged in the Second World War and again in the 1953 floods.

It was restored, altered, subsequently renamed St Peter's and is still in use with a membership of 48" 

DB 29 June 2019 

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Alford, Skegness & Wainfleet Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson July 1998 it is stated that :-

i) A chapel was opened in 1836 in Church Road.

ii) A new chapel was built in the High Street and opened on the 8.5.1868.

It was enlarged in 1881 and a schoolroom added and opened on the 5.11.1888.

It was further enlarged by the addition of vestries and a new transept - stonelaying on the 13.11.1913 and reopening on the 2.4.1914.

The last service was held on the 17.10.1965 and the Society joined with that at St Peter's.

The chapel was sold and converted into a printer's workshop and later used as a warehouse.

In 1996 it was converted into a number of dwellings"

DB 29 June 2019

This former chapel was erected by the Wesleyan Methodists in 1873. The last service was held in May 1995 and it is now in use as the village hall.

September 2018

A chapel was opened in Shop Hill by the Primitive Methodists in 1861.

It closed in the early 1940s and was sold in 1947.

The building stood derelict for at least 50 years. It is not clear whether the bungalow (called "The Old Chapel") on the site incorporates any of the chapel.

It is located at NGR TF 278 611

Barry Barton, 1978

This is the former schoolroom, once attached to the rear of the chapel and standing appropriately in Chapel Lane.

Since the demolition of the chapel in 1994 this has been the place of worship for the village Methodists.

April 2016 

This Wesleyan Methodist chapel on the corner of Main Road and Chapel Lane was opened in 1891.

The building became unsafe and had to be demolished in 1994, after which time the congregation met in the schoolroom at the rear of the site.

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This view shows the roadside, northern gable end of the chapel. The brickwork betrays that the lower part of the windows have been blocked. [Might the brick piers be original?]

Jean Howard 13 August 2021

"Mareham-on-the-Hill Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1853, with money left by one Zach(ariah) Goe*. The chapel closed at some point between 1956 and 1970, when it is no longer labelled as such on the OS maps.

The building is of red brick and has a gabled roof, with decorative barge boards on the eaves. It has segmental-headed window arches, dressed with rubbed brick. The west elevation has had a garage door installed.”

[This from Lincolnshire Heritage Explorer plus * his full name from White 1882]

A view from the north-west.

Jean Howard 13 August 2021

In "A List And Brief Details Of The Lincolnshire Chapels In The Stamford, Newark, Peterborough, Wisbech & Goole Circuits Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson March 1998 it is stated that :-

"The foundation stone for a chapel, in Church Street, was laid on the 15.7.1876 and the last service was held on the 29.9.1940.

It was subsequently sold and in 1940 converted into "The Coronation Hall" and is still in use as such"

DB 11 November 2019

The Methodist Church at Market Rasen was built in 1863 at a cost of c.£4000.

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1909 states :-

"Primitive Methodist, Jameson Bridge street, Rev. John Wilson, Superintendent; 11 a.m. & 6 p.m. ; wed. 7 p.m. winter; 7.15 p.m. summer"

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Market Rasen & Caistor Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Eileen H Mumby September 1997 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"The Society was formed on the 19.5.1819 and in 1836 they purchased the old Jameson Bridge Street Wesleyan chapel which they reopened on the 14.5.1837.

The foundation stone for a new chapel, on the same site, was laid on the 4.7.1866 and the last service was held in mid 1940.

The chapel was sold in 1943 and is now in use as a Masonic Lodge"

DB 1 June 2019

This large chapel on the east side of Union Street was opened by the United Methodists in June 1861. It seated a congregation of 500.

The last service was held in 1963 and it has since been used for commercial purposes.

It is to be regretted that the facade on Union Street was altered by rendering and the insertion of a large doorway entrance.

May 2018

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 it is stated that :-

"The first chapel was built in Mill Street in 1837.

It was replaced by the High Street chapel in 1879 and was used for a few years as a schoolroom.

It was subsequently convened in to, and is now in use as, a dwelling house called "Chapel House" 

A report " Nonconformist Chapels in North Kesteven" states

"the former Primitive chapel in Mill Lane in Martin had a pedimented raised gable added when the earlier building of 1837 was raised and remodelled in 1858" 

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Download/1586 

DB 5 April 2018

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 it is stated that :-

"The foundation stone for the High Street chapel was laid on the 10.10.1878 and the chapel opened in 1879.

The foundation stone for the new Sunday school was laid on the 13 10 1887.

The chapel closed in 1988 and the buildings are now in commercial use by Majestic Crystal Ltd" 

https://www.majesticcrystal.co.uk 

DB 5 April 2018

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 it is stated that :-

"i) The first chapel was erected in 1809.

ii) A second chapel was built in 1832.

iii) The third chapel, in High Street, was erected in 1860 and closed in 1936. It is now used as a village hall"

See also :-

https://www.lincstothepast.com/Download/1586 

DB 5 April 2018

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Gainsborough Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Jim English March 1998 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"A Society was formed in 1794 and a chapel erected in the High Street in 1814.

A schoolroom was added to the rear of the chapel in 1823 and further extended in 1964 by the addition of a kitchen and toilets.

It is still in use with a membership of 10"

DB 24 June 2020

Formerly in the parish of Thorne, West Riding of Yorkshire but now in Crowle following boundary changes in 1993.

Was in the Epworth and Crowle Methodist Circuit until the chapel closed in 1967.

Located at National Grid Reference SE748122.

Geoff Swain Collection 31 May 1994

Interior of the chapel now in a ruinous condition.

Inscription on the end wall reads "THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD". 

Geoff Swain Collection 31 May 1994

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Scunthorpe Circuit Past And Present" prepared By Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn G White March 1997 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"i) The Society was formed on the 14.11.171. a house licensed in 1777 and a chapel built in 1796.

The site is not known and the chapel demolished with the opening of its successor.

ii) The new chapel was erected in Church Street in 1821 and a Sunday school added in 1838.

An organ chamber was added to the chapel in 1856 and a new schoolroom in 1869.

The chapel was repewed in 1876 and redesigned and renovated in 1955.

A new hall and kitchens were opened on the 17.8.1961 and a further two classrooms in 1970.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 59" 

DB 27 March 2019

This chapel opened in May 1908 and is still in use. It was the fourth Wesleyan Methodist chapel to be built in the village.

March 2016

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :-

"The Wesleyan Reform Union had a chapel in Middle Street known as the People's Hall.

Built in 1853, it closed in 1922 and is now a workshop"

DB 7 June 2018  

The chapel sanctuary is to the right, the schoolroom to the left.

June 2018

The Wesleyans built this chapel (on Chapel Lane) in 1838 and enlarged the building in 895.

It closed in 1980 and has subsequently been remodelled and extended as a dwelling.

This simple brick chapel was erected in 1701.  Originally thatched, the roof was tiled in 1847.

Regular worship ceased in the 1970s but occasional services are held.

It is owned by the National Trust.

(Monksthorpe is in the parish of Great Steeping.) 

Frank Robinson, 2010

This modest building was opened as a chapel for the Wesleyan Methodists in 1840.

The last service was held in 1971 and the unrestored building is used as a store.

May 2018

"New Day Baptist Church

There has been a Baptist Church in Morton since 1846. the present Church moved to its present location in 1876"

http://parishes.lincolnshire.gov.uk/MortonandHanthorpe/section.asp?catId=36238 

DB 20 August 2020

A chapel was erected here in Fen Gate in 1812 and was later used as a Sunday School for the new chapel built in front of it in 1902.

September 2017

The chapel on Red Cow Drove, built in 1910, is the second Wesleyan Methodist chapel on this site. The last service was held in 1973.

July 2019

Pictured whilst participating in the annual South Holland Church Flower Festivals event. 

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Holbeach Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson March 1998 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"A Society was formed in 1789 and a house registered for worship in 1795.

A chapel was erected, in Bell Lane, in 1830 and is still in use with a membership of 12"

DB 1 May 2010

The Methodist Church in Navenby is well-positioned towards the north end of the village on the A607 Lincoln - Grantham road.

June 2015

The Methodist Church in Navenby is well-positioned towards the north end of the village on the A607 Lincoln - Grantham road.

June 2015

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This is the site of a Baptist chapel, later used by a congregation of the Wesleyan Reform Union.

This society rebuilt the chapel (the current building) on the same site in 1863. The final service in the building was held in July 1959.

February 2018

The first service for the Wesleyan Methodists in this building was held in November 1899.

The chapel was modernised and enlarged in 1969 and further remodelled in 1987.

February 2018

The former Primitive Methodist Chapel in Church Street, Nettleton was built about 1860 and was still in use in the 1950s.

Originally there were four bays. The porch is still there behind the chapel.

Pearl Wheatley, 2012

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Church Street, Nettleton was built 1848 with a Sunday School at the rear built in 1912.

Pearl Wheatley, 2012

The present building, in regular use for worship into the 1990s, is the second chapel on this site. The first was built in 1848; the second 1872.

It is located at NGR TF 247 551 in Wildmore parish.

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Coningsby Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised July 1998) it is stated that :-

"A chapel was built in 1848 on the corner of Dogdyke and Langrick Roads, although the official opening, by Mr C Richardson - the "Lincolnshire Trasher" didn't occur until the 11.2.1850.

It became unsafe and had to be demolished.

A new chapel was built on the same site and opened on the 19.9.1872 and is still in use with a membership of 9"

Other references refer to Charles Richardson as the "Lincolnshire Thrasher" a renowned Wesleyan evangelist.

Unfortunately the chapel has since closed and was purchased by auction July 2011.

DB 7 May 2019

The Wesleyan Methodists were very swift to build a chapel in the new settlement in 1825. ( It was almost another 30 years before a purpose-built Anglican place of worship was provided in the village.)

The last service was held in the chapel in April 1986, since which time the building has stood empty, slowly deteriorating.

Jean Howard, August 2023

This postcard was posted in Boston on 15 October 1910. It shows the pulpit between two reading desks supported by twisted brass uprights decorated with ivy leaves. Two matching brackets hold oil lamps and uprights in the same style support the sanctuary rail. The bench ends, shaped with ‘arm rests’, are unusual.

Jean Howard

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Barton-On-Humber Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson September 1997 (Revised May 1998) states :-

i) A chapel was erected in 1858.

ii) A second chapel, also in Main Street, was erected in 1877. A new kitchen and toilets were constructed in 1974.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 14"

Unfortunately the chapel was subsequently closed in 2006. 

Geoff Swain Collection 28 August 1994

The Wesleyan Chapel was built in Sibsey Road in 1838 and a schoolroom was added in 1848.

The building was sold in 1977 after the Methodists began a shared use arrangement with the Anglicans at St Jude's parish church.

Methodist services in the parish came to an end in 1984.

The chapel building is now a private house, "The Old Chapel"; the schoolroom has been demolished.

It is located at NGR TF 402 573.

Barry Barton, 1978

The former chapel is barely recognisable. Gone are the attractive round-headed windows, the stylish main entrance and the date plaque.

This must be one of the most insensitive and ugliest chapel conversions around.

September 2021 

This fine building, at the junction of Dogdyke Road and Langrick Road, was opened as a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in September 1872.

It replaced an earlier building of 1848 which had become unsafe.

July 2017

The Wesleyan Methodists built this chapel in Newton by Toft (for Toft by Newton too) in 1858 and enlarged it in 1886. It closed in 1970.

May 2020

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Lincoln Circuits Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson (Revised October 2000) states :-

"i) A Society was formed circa 1750 and the chapel built in 1790 or 1812 or 1828. Following the opening of the new chapel it was sold for £50.

ii) The foundation stone for a new chapel, in Dunham Road, was laid on the 15.7.1895 and the building opened on the 6.11.1895. The chapel is still in use with a membership of 5"

Following closure it was converted into a dwelling and sold in 2015.

Geoff Swain Collection 2 July 1993

This large chapel at the corner of Chapel Lane was built for the Free Methodists in 1864 and later used by United Methodists.

It is Grade II listed and has been converted into a dwelling.

June 2017

The former Non-Conformist Chapel in Front Street was built in 1813 and enlarged in 1825 and 1845. By 1856 it belonged to the Free Methodists; it closed in 1862.

Other chapels were built in the village but date stones on this one notes 1861 and 1867. There lies the mystery.

Pearl Wheatley, 2011

The former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Chapel Lane, North End, was built in 1867, to replace and earlier chapel of 1804.

The last service was held here in 1978.

Colin Sheperdson in his "Brief Details of Chapels in the Lincoln Circuits" Revised 2001 states :-

i) A house was licenced in April 1809 but the cause died out in 1815.

It was re-missioned in 1830 and a chapel opened on the 28.10.1838.

Following the opening of the new chapel it was subsequently converted in to two houses, now 7 & 8 Cross Lane.

ii) The foundation stone for a new chapel in Chapel Lane, was laid on the 8.8.1881.

Following modernisation and an extension it was reopened on the 13.5.1989 and is still in use with a membership of 71. 

DB 19 April 2018

The first Wesleyan Methodist chapel in North Kelsey was built in 1796, the second in 1848.

This in turn was replaced by the present building in Chapel Street in 1897.

May 2016

This former Methodist Chapel (presumably for the Primitives) was rebuilt in 1856 in place of one 1837. It had originally had three bays; later it was used as the village post office.

Pearl Wheatley, 2012

The former United Methodist Chapel in North Owersby was built 1881 and fell from use 1936.

Pearl Wheatley, 2012

The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Thornton Road was built in 1908 superseding one of 1856.It is now a domestic property.

Pearl Wheatley, 2012

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states that :- 

"Built in North Rauceby in 1881, the last service was held on the 24.3.1967. The chapel is now a pair of stone clad dwellings, Nos 27 & 29 Main Road".

DB 2020

A chapel opened by the Wesleyan Methodists in 1900 in High Street, now used as the parish hall.

July 2021

The Primitive Methodist Chapel on Chapel Lane was built in 1899.

It replaced a building of similar size built 50 years earlier.

September 2023 

Begun as a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in 1845, this building was extended in 1905 and served as the village's Methodist church until closure in June 2023.

Viewed from the northwest. 

Jean Howard, April 2022

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Boston Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson October 1996 (Revised August 1998) states :-

"i) A chapel was erected in 1806.

ii) The second chapel was built in 1814/15 in what is now Chapel Lane. A new school was opened on the 22.12.1839 and the chapel enlarged in 1871. The schoolroom was rebuilt in 1971 and the chapel is still in use with a membership of 16"

Unfortunately the chapel subsequently closed in 1999. Judging by a Google Street View image taken July 2009 the chapel was for sale but in poor condition.

Postcard postmarked 1905

Primitive Methodists erected a chapel in 1839 and then built a new chapel behind it in 1881.

Closure occurred in 1946 and the buildings were sold the following year. Both former chapels are used as farm store sheds today.

They are located at NGR TF 405 518 in Fold Hill Road, Old Leake.

Barry Barton, 1978

In "Brief Details of Chapels in the Grantham Circuit" Revised August 1998 Colin Sheperdson and Allen Griffin state :-

"A chapel was rented from circa 1891 but the Society built their own chapel, in Grantham Road, in 1900. It is now a small rebuilt cottage "The Old Chapel"".

DB 2 March 2020

Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire 1919 states :-

"There is a Wesleyan chapel at Reeds Beck, built in 1850 and rebuilt in 1901, and seating 100 persons"

Now closed and being converted into a private house. 

DB 26 January 2019

This chapel, opened in 1897 on Westgate, is the third one built by the Wesleyan Methodists in the village.

The architect was Frederick Whittaker Dixon (1854-1935) from Oldham, Lancashire.

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The Primitive Methodist Chapel on Normanby Road, Owmby by Spital, was built in 1903 and in use as a doctor's surgery when this photograph was taken.

Pearl Wheatley, 2010

"Centenary Methodist chapel. 1837. Red brick, with front of red stock brick in Flemish bond, ashlar dressings. Concrete tile roof"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1049072

DB 21 August 2018

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Lincoln Circuits Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson March 1998 (Revised October 2001) it is stated that :-

"A chapel was erected in 1838, also in Barff Road being the last building on the left when leaving the village and adjacent to 'Southcote'.

The last service was held on the 8.10.1944 and the chapel is now boarded up and for sale, having been used as a store shed for many years" 

Geoff Swain Collection 24 June 1994

The foundation stone for this chapel in Barff Road was laid in 1888. A hall for the Sunday School and community use was opened in 1962.

July 2011

"brick chapel (c 1900)"

https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1001471 

DB 20 August 2020 

This is one of the most important chapels in Methodism and the oldest in Lincolnshire.

John Wesley himself opened the chapel above the stables of Raithby Hall in 1779.

It is a Grade I listed building.

July 2012

This Wesleyan Methodist chapel, on High Street at the corner of Chapel Lane, was opened in 1894.

July 2016

It is located at NGR TF 307 602 in Revesby parish.

Barry Barton, 1977

A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was erected here in 1852 and replaced on the same site in 1953.

It remained open as a place of worship into the 21st century.

It is located at NGR TF 261 550 in corner of Revesby parish next to Wildmore.

Barry Barton, 1978

The former chapel has been adapted for residential use but all the external features have been retained.

May 2018

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Grimsby & Cleethorpes Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson it is stated that :-

"A Society was renting a preaching place in 1873 and the foundation stone for their own chapel was laid on Shrove Tuesday 1884 and opened on the 3.6.1884.

It closed on the 31.12.1958 and in 1966 was converted into a house, "Four Winds""

The war memorial was transferred to St Edmund's Church where it is displayed on the wall at the end of the south aisle.

DB 19 May 2019

Former chapel now a private house.

"The chapel was built in 1837 and closed in 1989"

https://www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/upload/public/attachments/1028/ropsley_chapel.pdf

DB 6 August 2018

The chapel on South Street was opened for the Primitive Methodists in 1898. A schoolroom, the entrance to which is seen here to the right, was added in 1962.

September 2022 

Zion Wesleyan Reform Methodist Chapel.

DB 21 August 2019

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by  Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 states :- 

i) A chapel "north of Town Street" was erected in 1833.

ii) A new chapel, in Chapel Street, was built in 1849.

The complex was replaced in 1958 by a new dual purpose hall on the same site, opened on the 18.9.1958, and which became the church with the opening of a new schoolroom in 1964.

It is still in use with a membership of 49.

DB 21 August 2019

This former chapel on Fen Road (TF 111520) - a very remote spot - was built for the Wesleyan Reform Union c.1860.

Chris Squires, 2023 

The former Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Saleby has been disused since it was last used for worship in 1984. It was built in 1855 and a schoolroom added in 1914.

September 2018

By the end of the 19th century Saltfleet had chapels for three groups of non-conformists: the Wesleyan chapel, built in 1815, the Primitive chapel, from 1836 and the Free Methodist chapel, established in 1855.

Now only the one of 1815 remains with a porch added in 1867, set back from the main street behind an attractive garden.

No longer standing, this small chapel was built for the Wesleyan Methodists in 1825 and closed in 1971.

Saracen's Head is also known as Holbeach Clough.

In his "Brief Details of Chapels in The Lincoln Circuits" Revised October 2001 Colin Shepherdson states :-

"The Godfrey Memorial Church, in the High Street, was opened on the 21.3.1940 on a site opposite the old Wesleyan chapel.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 66"

DB 19 June 2018 

In his "Brief Details of Chapels in The Lincoln Circuits" Revised October 2001 Colin Shepherdson states :-

Wesleyan Reform Union Chapel / Free Methodist Chapel / United Methodist Chapel

"i) A chapel opened on the 9.2.1851.

ii) A new chapel was opened in the High Street, at its junction with Syke Road, on the 18.5.1881.

It closed on the 11.1.1937 when the Society merged with the ex-Wesleyans in their chapel pending the erection of a new chapel.

The old chapel is now in use as the village hall"

Geoff Swain Collection 12 June 1994

This was the second chapel built by the Wesleyan Methodists in the village. It opened in 1836 and was demolished in 1977.

The new Methodist chapel was built on the same site in 1978. 

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Grimsby & Cleethorpes Circuit Past And Present” Prepared By Colin Shepherdson March 1998 reports that :-

"House services commenced in 1781 and a Society formed in 1784 The chapel, in Louth Road, opened on Good Friday, 1.4.1836.

It was replaced on the same site by a new one - the foundation stone being laid on the 9.1.1868 and the chapel opened on the 4.6.1868.

The chapel was extended and vestries added in 1910, a small hall added in 1938 and a further extension in 1969.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 140"

DB 4 February 2023

Kelly's Directory 1913 states "The Wesleyan chapel is a building in the Gothic style erected in 1868 at a cost of £800"

DB 4 February 2023

A seres of stones are set into the front face of the building. The topmost stone reads "TO COMMEMORATE THE ERECTION OF THIS BUILDING, THESE STONES WERE LAID 2ND FEBRUARY 1939"

DB 4 February 2023

"A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Brigg Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn White September 1997 (Revised July 1998) states :-

"The Society initially rented a barn for worship and a shop, adjacent to the present chapel, was leased from 1874.

The foundation stone for their own "Shaw" chapel, in Chapel Lane, was laid on the 22.5.1895 and the building opened on the 27.10.1895.

It is still in use with a membership of 13" 

Geoff Swain Collection 6 September 1993

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel & associated Sunday School.

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Sleaford Circuit Past And Present" prepared by Colin Shepherdson & Peter Robinson June 1996 it is stated that :-

"A Society was formed in 1836 and the first chapel built in 1840.

Adjacent land was purchased in 1901 and the chapel demolished on Easter Monday, 1905.

Stone laying for a new chapel on the enlarged site, 79 Main Road, was held on the 10.5.1905 and the building opened on the 26.7.1905.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 14"  

DB 28 January 2019 

The first Methodist Chapel in the village was built by the Wesleyans in 1823.

It was replaced by the current building on Main Street in 1858.

September 2016

See another image of this church 

This chapel on the right was opened by the Primitive Methodists on West street in 1819 and then sold to the Methodist New Connexion in c.1849.

This society later became United Methodist and, after a schoolroom was added, the chapel was re-faced in 1901.

The last service was held in 1948 and it was sold for use as a warehouse. The building was demolished in 1971.

early 20th century postcard

On the corner of High Street and Hobb Lane. 

In "A List And Brief Details Of Chapels In The Scunthorpe Circuit Past And Present" prepared By Colin Shepherdson & Mervyn G White March 1997 (Revised August 1998) it is stated that :-

"A Dissenter's Certificate was issued in June 1774 for 'a house lately built' and the first chapel erected in 1815.

Situated opposite the present chapel in the High Street it was sold circa 1900, following the opening of its replacement, and is now an empty shop.

The foundation stone for the second chapel, also in the High Street, was laid on the 19.7.1899 and the chapel opened on the 27.6.1900.

The chapel is still in use with a membership of 54"

Geoff Swain Collection 6th September 1993

A relatively rare chapel of this Methodist group was built here in 1887.

The last service (of what was then a united Methodist Church) was held in January 1984.

After closure the building was sold in 1986 and converted into a bungalow next to "Chapel Cottage".

It is located at NGR TF 387 417 in Freiston parish.

An updated view of the chapel.

"Scrane End chapel was in the parish of Freiston. It was built in 1887 and closed in 1984"