Wainfleet Bank Primitive Methodist Chapel, Mill Lane. Lincolnshire

The Chapel is a Grade II Listed Building

Photograph taken March 2023
Photograph taken March 2023
Photograph taken March 2023
Photograph taken March 2023

Wainfleet Bank PM Chapel is situated in a very rural area with few houses near by. It is in the East Lindsey district of Lincolnshire. There is one house attached to the chapel building. This may have been the ‘Chapel-Keeper’s’ accommodaton.  On the other side is a detached property which could have been the house for a Primitive Methodist Minister. When visiting in March 2023, the chapel building looked a little ‘jaded’ and uncared for. The bottoms of all the window-frames are in a poor state of repair. The front door has been replaced at sometime in the past and now it has a clasp lock on it which may mean the building is not in use.                                                                                                                  Underneath the date (1838) the chapel plaque has the following verse:                                      ‘COME IN THOU BY THE LORD’                                                                                              ‘WHEREFORE STANDEST WITHOUT’            (verses taken from Genesis 24 : 31)

As stated above the Chapel building is Grade 11 Listed since 17th December 1987.        The Chapel sadly closed for worship in 2009.                                                                                                Photographs taken in March 2023 by Elaine and Richard Pearce.

 

Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln has the following records relating to this Chapel.

Wainfleet Bank Primitive Methodist Chapel was within Alford PM Circuit up to 1916, and Skegness PM Circuit 1916-1932/3.

Ref. Meth/C/Wainfleet Bank, Primitive/C: Trust & Committees.

Ref. Meth/C/Wainfleet Bank, Primitive/H: Sunday School.

Ref. Meth/C/Wainfleet Bank, Primitive/G.

Follow this link to see a picture of the chapel. The building is Grade II listed.

Editor’s note [CH]: The Primitive Methodist magazine of 1839 includes an account by Jeremiah Gilbert of the opening of Wainfleet Bank Primitive Methodist chapel on September 18th 1838. Involved in the opening were J Gilbert, W Leeke, Mr Tennant, Mrs M Simpson, Mrs H Simpson and Brother A F Beckerlegge.

For 5 years previously a society had met here – in Mr Whitehead’s barn in the summer but they had no winter meeting place. Mrs Thornally offered her garden if her landlord would sell it .He gave the society as much land as they needed to build a chapel.

Reference

Primitive Methodist magazine 1839 page 460-461

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