Sutton on Sea Primitive Methodist chapel

Station Road Sutton on Sea LN12 2HR

Former Methodist chapel in Sutton on Sea, identified by Keith Guyler as Primitive Methodist, but corrected by Steve Bulman to Wesleyan
Keith Guyler 1995
chapel identified by Keith Guyler as Sutton on Sea Primitive Methodist chapel: but also Wesleyan, at Sandilands
Keith Guyler 1997
Sutton on Sea Primitive Methodist chapel

This entry has been amended (01/2023) in the light of Steve Bulman’s comment below.

Sutton on Sea is north east of Alford.

The 1877 Primitive Methodist magazine contains a note of the opening of a new Primitive Methodist chapel in Sutton on Sea. It was in the Alford circuit.  The replacement chapel dates from 1876 and served until 1942.

A Sunday school was added in 1890.

In his archive  of photographs of former Methodist chapels, Keith Guyler includes two pictures  he labels as Sutton on Sea Primitive Methodist chapel.  As Steve Bulman points out in the comment below, they are of  different buildings, despite both being labelled as the 1876 Prim chapel.  Steve identifies the 1995 photograph as being the former Wesleyan chapel on Station Road, shown on Street View in 2008 as converted into flats – Chatsworth Court. It is shown as such on the 1905 Ordnance Survey map – which also shows the Primitive Methodist chapel on what was then High Street  and is now Alford Road..

The 1997 photograph shows a building  further south,  on Huttoft Road at the junction with Sea Lane – and although it is not labelled on the 1905 Ordnance Survey map, on the 1888 6″ Ordnance Survey map it is marked  as “Meth chapel (Wesleyan)”

  • location of the Sea Lane chapel: 524805
  • location of the Wesleyan Station Road chapel: 520816

Alford is now served by a large chapel at the junction of Station Road and Alford Road (LN12 2HF) which replaced both the Wesleyan and Primitive chapels in due course.

Reference

Primitive Methodist magazine 1877 page 699

Comments about this page

  • Thank you for the corrections Steve. I have amended the page to reflect them.

    The photos on the page were both labelled as Sutton on Sea Primitive Methodist chapel (1876) by Keith Guyler, who took them as part of his campaign to photograph all former Methodist chapels. He is usually correct, but here is mistaken. In fact, both the larger chapel on Station Road and the Sea Lane chapel are formerly Wesleyan Methodist chapels. Steve’s correction prompted me to look on other OS maps

    The grid reference for the Sea Lane chapel is correct, but the Station Road reference was a little awry.

    We rely on visitors to these pages to correct errors and build a picture of each chapel and society. The links to Lincolnshire archives in Raymond Ella’s first comment on this page also include reference to Sea Lane Prim chapel and Station Road chapel; that needs unscrambling too!

    I’ve created a page on My Wesleyan Methodists as the proper home for these pictures.

    By Christopher Hill (09/01/2023)
  • Good morning.
    This entry may need some corrections.
    The first photo above is of the former chapel on Station Road (TF 5205 8163). On the 25″ O.S. map of 1906 it shows as Wesleyan. On the same map, a P.M. chapel is shown on High Street, at TF 5183 8170. It hasn’t survived, as can be seen on a Streetview from 2009 – https://goo.gl/maps/Do8swRyuQPNohXjp9.
    The second photo has the same caption as the first (1876 Sutton on Sea Primitive Methodist chapel), but is clearly a different building. I don’t know where this building is.
    Both of the grid references in your entry are also nowhere near any chapels – at least according to O.S. maps.

    Regards,
    Steve Bulman

    By Steve Bulman (08/01/2023)
  • Lincolnshire Archives, Lincoln:

    Ref. Meth/C/Sutton on Sea, Station Road/C/1/1: Trust Minute Book, 1908-1916 & Trust Accounts, 1908-1932, etc.

    Ref. Meth/C/Sutton on Sea, Station Road/D/4/2: List of Deceased Trustees up to c.1932, then 1933/4-1945.

    Ref. Meth/C/Sutton on Sea, Station Road/E/7/1: Sale, documents from 1943 to 1947.

    Ref. Meth/C/Sutton on Sea, Station Road/A/1/1: Register of Marriage, 1928-1932, 1933/4-1940 (CLOSED UNTIL year 2025).

    Ref. MLI99019: Sutton on Sea Primitive Methodist Chapel on Sea Lane, built c.1825?, closed 1876?. Larger Chapel built n Station Road.

    Ref. MLI99016: Sutton on Sea Primitive Methodist Chapel, Station Road, to seat 250, closed 1942.

    Alford PM Circuit to 1932/3.

     

    By Raymond E.O.Ella (12/01/2018)

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