The first Wesleyan chapel here was of a very early date (1796) according to Myles’ history of Methodism.
A second chapel, erected on Main Street in 1842, had sittings for up to 350. It was declared unsafe in 1891 and “demolished immediately”.
Foundation stones for a new chapel on the same site were laid in July 1891. Opening in the November, there were sittings for 260, and a Sunday school building behind it in Chapel Lane.
This rather grand building, in Gothic style, cost in the region of £1,750. After standing for more than a hundred years, it too was judged to be structurally unsound, leading to closure and demolition in 1994.
For some time the Sunday school was utilised as a chapel, although this is no longer a place of worship.
Sources include
History of the People called Methodists: Wm Myles pub 1813
Census of Religious Worship 1851 (Lincs): Edited RW Ambler 1979
Methodist Times 9th and 16th July 1891
Boston Target 14th September 1994
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