Building record MLI92194 - Former Wesleyan Methodist Chapel and Sunday School and Congregational School, Red Lion Street, Boston

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Former Wesleyan Methodist chapel and Sunday School, in Red Lion Street, Boston. The chapel is now converted into two houses. The Sunday School was used by the Congregational church after 1869.

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PRN 14013 The second Wesleyan chapel in Boston, which replaced the Wormgate chapel, was built on Red Lion Street at the corner with Chapel Street in 1808. This new chapel was privately owned and seated 770 people. The chapel was enlarged in 1818 to seat 1100 but was in turn replaced by the Wesleyan Centenary Chapel in 1839-40 when it became inadequate for the still growing congregation. It was then converted into two dwellings for the ministers of the Centenary Chapel and was occupied as such until around 1900. It is presently in use as two houses. The chapel is marked on a map of 1839. The building has 3 storeys of three bays; 2 lower storeys and a short upper storey. The front is constructed of gault brick and the other elevations are of red brick. The flat-headed and segmental-headed windows frames have been replacedwith plastic frames and glazing bars. The original entrance was replaced by 2 doorways in the 19th century with pilasters and brackets supporting a flat hood. The doors have since been replaced in plastic. The half-hipped roof has wide overhanging eaves on the front elevation, and wooden eaves bands on the side elevations. It is covered with modern tiles. On the opposite corner of Chapel Street is a building which has a stone tablet with superimposed inscriptions. The earlier inscription appears to indicate that it was a Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School from 1824 and the later inscription indicates that it was a Congregational School from 1869. The building has a raised gable with stone copings and kneelers and 2 tiers of openings. The front is constructed of gault brick with red brick dresssings, including string-courses and diamond motifs, and has 3 bays of round-headed openings in 2 tiers. In the gable is a stone tablet and a pointed opening with polychrome brick dressings. The side elevations are rendered and have 4 bays of windows in 2 tiers; the upper tier square-headed and the lower tier segmental-headed. The front part of the building appears to be in use as a hall and the rear part appears to be used as a house or flats. A building is marked on the site on maps of 1829 and 1839. It is marked as a Sunday School on a map of 1887 and as a Hall on a map of 1968. {1}{2}{3}{4}{5}{6}{7}

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  •  Digital Archive: Lincolnshire County Council. 2004-2009. GIS layer depicting locations and survival of nonconformist chapels. 14013.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Leary, W.. 1972. Methodism in the Town of Boston. Pages 27-28 & 33.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Pishey Thompson. 1856. The Histories and Antiquities of Boston. Page 209.
  •  Map: Dewhurst and Nicholls. 1839. The Town of Boston. paper. -.
  •  Map: Wood, John. 1829. Plan of Boston Environs. -.
  •  Map: OS. 1887. Boston Town Plan. -.
  •  Map: Ordnance Survey. 1968. OS 1:2500 SERIES. TF3244.

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Grid reference Centred TF 32658 44360 (15m by 16m)
Civil Parish BOSTON, BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Mar 21 2021 8:35PM

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