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Summary

John Hunt Memorial Wesleyan church, Fosse Lane

Full description

62406
The John Hunt Memorial Wesleyan Methodist chapel is located on Fosse Lane, and was built of red brick in Gothic style with a ritually south-west (actually north-east) tower. It is said to have been built in 1902, although an alternative construction date is given as 1909, which seems more likely, as it does not appear on the 1905 OS County Series map. {1}{2}{3}

John Hunt was a pioneer missionary and was quite an important figure in Methodist history. He came from the Thorpe on the Hill area, and went to Fiji for 10 years. {3}{4}

The chapel was visited in 2009. It superseded an earlier chapel on Lincoln Lane which is indicated on the 1905 OS County Series Map and was included in the Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Eastern England but is no longer extant (PRN 62422). The surviving chapel is now in use as a house. The building is gothic in style with a three-bay gabled front with a central three-light gothic window with cusped tracery and leaded blue and green glass with Art Nouveau motifs. The bays are divided by stepped buttresses with stone cappings and the lateral bays have lancet windows. The raised gable has stone copings and kneelers and a tablet in the gable reads 'The John Hunt Memorial Wesleyan Church 1909'. The two string courses are of ashlar and the window dressings are of yellow brick and stone. The unusual feature of an attached tower with pyramidal roof contains the main doorway. The side elevations have four bays of paired pointed widows. Velux windows have been inserted. A gabled annexe, probably a former sunday school room is attached behind.{5}{6}

<1> Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram, 1989, Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition), page 763 (Bibliographic Reference). SLI1062.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1902-06, 25 Inch County Series Map - Second Edition, 77/8 (Map). SLI3566.

<3> Leary, W., 1988, Lincolnshire Methodism, page 42 (Bibliographic Reference). SLI7885.

<4> Museum of Lincolnshire Life, 1969, Untitled Source, - (Correspondence). SLI7886.

<5> Lincolnshire County Council, 2004-2009, GIS layer depicting locations and survival of nonconformist chapels, 62406 (Digital Archive). SLI9638.

<6> Christopher Stell, 2002, Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Eastern England, page 226 (Bibliographic Reference). SLI9202.

Monument Types

• SUNDAY SCHOOL (Edwardian to Late 20th Century - 1909 AD to 1970 AD?)
• WESLEYAN METHODIST CHAPEL (Edwardian to Late 20th Century - 1909 AD to 1970 AD?)
• HOUSE (Late 20th Century to 21st Century - 1970 AD? to 2050 AD)

Associated Events

• Site visit to nonconformist chapel, Fosse Lane, Thorpe-on-the-Hill

Sources and further reading

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