PRN 70434 The Zion Chapel, built as part of the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion in the Parist of St Swithin, was erected in 1805. It is a separate and entire building used exclusively as a place of worship. The chapel had a maximum congregation of 200 people. {1} The chapel first appears on the Marrat Map of 1817. {2} The various sects which adopted a more extreme Methodist position than the Wesleyans, sometimes subscribing to Calvinism, form a distinct group within the Methodist family. The earliest such community in Lincoln was established under the patronage of the Countess of Huntingdon in the 1770s, but no chapel seems to have been built until 1802. This chapel was built on the Zion Chapel site in Silver Street. Chapels of the Countess’ Connection were never common. By 1851 the Zion Chapel community had been joined by the ‘United’ or ‘Free’ Methodists’ and in 1864 the chapel was rebuilt again, this time to designs by Bellamy and Hardy (PRN 70437). {3}