An application to demolish a 155-year-old former chapel has been submitted, while a separate plan for one even older has been granted permission to become a home.
The former Wesleyan Chapel building in Seas End Road, Surfleet Seas End, is thought to have been built in 1869 and ceased to be a chapel in 1953.
Now an outline application has been submitted to South Holland District Council to demolish the building and for a new home to be built on the site.
The documents submitted only make passing mention of the history of the building and doesn’t include information on how old it is.
However, Lincolnshire County Council’s register of historic buildings in the county states: “The first chapel was built in 1835 and had a Sunday School. The present building was built in 1869 and closed in 1953.
“It has subsequently been used as a garage but is now disused.
“It is constructed of red brick with gault brick dressings and has a gabled roof which is now covered with corrugated asbestos.
“The front gable has been grossly altered by the insertion of garage doors, obscuring the original openings, but remnants of a stepped string-course of gault brick can be seen.
“A lower gabled annexe to the rear, with the same stylistic features, probably represents a Sunday School.”
l Planning permission has been granted to turn an ex- Methodist chapel in Holbeach Drove into a home.
The Chapel Drove property held its last service after nearly 200 years in April.
Six new windows will be created at the property which will have just a single bedroom.
“The chapel has been a place of peace and calm, of connecting with God and marking significant life events for so many residents,” said the Rev Luke Smith, superintendent of South Holland Methodist Church.
He added that any proceeds from the sale of the property would be put to ‘good use within the circuit.’
