The small Methodist chapel

Chapel

A chapel is a building used by Christians as a place of fellowship and worship. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a church, college, hospital, palace, prison or funeral home, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building,...

 at Raithby by Spilsby

Raithby by Spilsby

Raithby is a village and civil parish located about north west of the town of Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England. After visiting Raithby in 1788, John Wesley, the founder of Wesleyan Methodism declared it ‘an earthly paradise’...

 is the oldest Methodist chapel in Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

, and one of the oldest in England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

. It is one of the few surviving chapels that was opened by John Wesley

John Wesley

John Wesley was a Church of England cleric and Christian theologian. Wesley is largely credited, along with his brother Charles Wesley, as founding the Methodist movement which began when he took to open-air preaching in a similar manner to George Whitefield...

, the founding father of Methodism, and is still in use today. The chapel is a Grade I listed building and stands above the former stable

Stable

A stable is a building in which livestock, especially horses, are kept. It most commonly means a building that is divided into separate stalls for individual animals...

s at Raithby Hall.

Services

The chapel is now part of the mid-Lincolnhshire Methodist Circuit. Services are held monthly, on the last Sunday of the month at 2.30pm.