Building record MLI42235 - Monksthorpe Baptist Chapel, Great Steeping

Summary

A baptist chapel, built in 1701. The building is now owned by the National Trust and is still in occasional use.

Type and Period (2)

  • (Post Medieval to Modern - 1701 AD to 2050 AD)
  • (Post Medieval to Modern - 1701 AD to 2050 AD)

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Full Description

The Baptist Chapel at Monksthorpe was constructed in c.1701. It was built in a remote location, 1 mile to the north-east of Great Steeping. It is a plain rectangular box of brick and pantile and is single storey with sash windows. {1} White's Directory states that the chapel was built in 1725, although this date would appear to be incorrect. {2}{3} Monksthorpe Baptist Chapel was built in 1701. The building had a thatched roof until 1847. Ambler suggests that the chapel was built in such a remote location so as to avoid persecution from the 'urban mob'. For the full description and the legal address of this listed building please refer to the appropriate List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. {4}{5}{6}{7}{8} Monksthorpe Baptist Chapel was the subject of a programme of archaeological recording, conducted in July 2016, to inform its future conservation management. The chapel was built in 1701, after land was gifted to the Baptists by Hugh Ayscoghe, an attorney-at-law from Halton Holegate. Ayscoghe is himself buried within the chapel, under the pulpit at the western end. The chapel was built only a short period after the passing of the Toleration Act of 1689, which allowed the freedom of worship to non-conformists, although persecution of their congregations was still a regular occurrence for some time afterwards. The chapel was therefore deliberately designed to resemble a farmhouse or barn, and was set in an isolated location, away from any main roads. The building was constructed of hand-made red bricks, and features a pitched roof of terracotta pantiles. The building was subject to a number of alterations in 1847, when the original thatch roof was replaced, and new windows, pews, vestries, pulpit and gallery were installed. A small red-brick privy outhouse was also added at this time, to the immediate north of the main chapel structure. The site is now in the care of the National Trust, who conducted renovation works to the chapel in 2001. {9}

Sources/Archives (9)

  •  Bibliographic Reference: Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram. 1989. Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition). p.333.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: William White. 1856. History, Gazetteer and Directory of Lincolnshire - Second Edition. p.532.
  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TF 46 NW: AI.
  •  Index: Department of the Environment. 1987. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 1/54.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Ambler, R.W.. 2000. Churches, Chapels and Parish Communities of Lincolnshire, 1660-1900. p.89.
  •  Digital Archive: Lincolnshire County Council. 2013. GIS layer depicting locations and survival of nonconformist chapels in East Lindsey. Great Steeping.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Christopher Stell. 2002. Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Eastern England. p.209.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: R.W. Ambler. 1979. Lincolnshire Returns of the Census of Religious Worship, 1851. no.827, p.152.
  •  Report: ArcHeritage. 2016. Monksthorpe Chapel and Graveyard, Great Steeping. ArcHeritage site code: 617.

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Grid reference Centred TF 45004 65365 (13m by 8m) Surveyed
Civil Parish GREAT STEEPING, EAST LINDSEY, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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