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Description: | PRN 65623
This Meeting House was built in 1776 (in what was then known as Hen Lane) being the next nonconformist place of worship in the town after the closure of a nonconformist chapel in Southgate in 1732 (PRN 65669). It was originally approached by a plank over a stream. It was supplied by ministers connected with Lady Huntingdon's Connexion and later joined the Independent Body. In 1800 a new trust was formed and in 1819 the Chapel was raised, a gallery added and a schoolroom was erected in 1837. It was then known as "Zion Independent or Congregational Dissenters Chapel". It continued in use until 1867 when it was superceded by the Congregational chapel built on Southgate (PRN 65326). It was then converted to a bakehouse and is now divided into three dwellings. It is built of red brick with a hipped pantile roof. The broad front probably originally had three bays and traces of a former central doorway are discernible. However the chapel was altered and reorganised in the nineteenth century when it was raised and has since undergone further alteration. The schoolroom, which was added in 1837, may have been added to the east and buttresses remain visible internally. The current fenestration consists of two segmental-headed glazing bar sashes at the upper level of the front elevation. The upper level of the rear elevation has two plus one flat-headed windows. The upper floor of the west end of the building is approached by external steps and there are traces of a former doorway at the lower level. Some of the internal roof structure, steps to the upper floor and wooden floors at the upper level of the east end survive.{1}{2}{3}{4}{5} | Subjects: | Building | Temporal: | 1776 - 1800 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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