Finkin Street Methodist Church

Finkin Street Methodist Church

Front of the church
Finkin Street Methodist Church
Coordinates: 52°54′43″N 0°38′32″W / 52.911863°N 0.642282°W / 52.911863; -0.642282
Location Grantham
Country England
Denomination Methodist
History
Founded 1840
Architecture
Status Chapel
Functional status Active
Heritage designation Grade II

Finkin Street Chapel is a Grade II[1][2] listed building in Grantham, Lincolnshire. The Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1840 and was the childhood church of Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.[3][4]

The chapel has a lectern dedicated to Thatcher's father Alfred Roberts who was a lay preacher there.[4]

In 2008, the congregation of the Central Methodist Church, Finkin Street joined with the congregation of St Peter's Hill United Reformed Church in Castlegate to form an LEP: ChristChurch, Grantham. A decision was then taken in April 2011 to keep the Methodist premises on Finkin Street and sell the URC premises on Castlegate.[5] The congregation is now known as ChristChurch Grantham.

References

  1. ↑ Historic England. "Details from image database (192945)". Images of England.
  2. ↑ Historic England. "Wesleyan Methodist Church  (Grade II) (1062522)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  3. ↑ Margaret Thatcher: her unswerving faith shaped by her father, Sunday Telegraph, 14 April 2013
  4. 1 2 "Special service for Margaret Thatcher's family at Grantham Methodist church". Grantham Journal. 21 May 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "Friends of ChristChurch, Grantham"

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