Standing on Knight Street, the chapel, seating 110, was built in 1847 as a Wesleyan (replacing an earlier chapel) and taken over by Reformers in the 1850s, eventually joining the United Methodist Free Churches. A separate Sunday school building catered for large numbers in its heyday.
Re-named as United Methodist (1907), and as Pinchbeck Methodist Church post-union (1932). Circuits: Spalding UMF; Spalding UM; and Spalding Methodist post union.
Dwindling numbers led to its closure in 1967. Members refused to allow its sale as they “would sooner have their chapel demolished than used for anything other than public worship”. It was reduced to rubble in 1969!
Sources include
Free Methodist Manual 1899
Methodist Church Buildings Statistical Returns 1940
Spalding Guardian 10th January 1969
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