The return from the Primitive Methodist chapel in Lytchett Matravers to the 1851 Census of Places of Public Religious worship was completed by John Beaumont, a “lay minister”. It tells us that the chapel held 80 worshippers and was full for the evening service. There was also a Sunday school.
The 1887 and 1923 Ordnance Survey maps show a Primitive Methodist chapel on what is now Lime Kiln Road, opposite the junction with Castle Farm Road. There is modern housing on the site on Google Street View.
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I know Lytchett Matravers fairly well and agreed with Chris’s statement about modern housing. I have driven past several times and checked for an older property lurking among the new but found nothing. However, this week I was driving along Lime Kiln Road and out of the corner of my eye thought I saw ‘chapel’ windows. When we had done what we went for, I drove back round and sure enough a house called ‘The Old Chapel’. I will go down again some time with a camera.
There are records in the Dorset History Centre under reference NM-3/S/8. including some titled ‘Papers concerning the sale of the church. 1932-1933’.
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