Lincoln
After the Osgodby chapel was built other Catholic communities in N. Lincs set about building free-standing chapels for their congregations. In Lincoln, Mass had been celebrated in a house belonging to Mrs Winifred Heneage, widow of the former squire of Cadeby estate near Louth. Now she helped build a chapel for the Catholics in Lincoln in 179914; although the cost of construction was supplied mainly by Mr Best, a convert former protestant minister. The chapel was a plain Romanesque building, terminating in an apse. It was not thought necessary to have the chapel on an upper floor of the building. It was considered to be safe from mob violence, in spite of what had happened only a few years before.
North Lincolnshire Towns/Villages.
The squire of
Hainton decided in 1791 to convert the existing chapel at Sixhills to a public
place of worship. This enabled the celebration of Mass to be transferred from
the house chapels of Hainton Hall and Sixhills Grange .The chapel in Sixhills
was similar to the one in Osgodby. In Louth a building was set up for the
celebration of mass and registered to replace the one in the Heneage house at
Cadeby. mass was also transferred from the Webb’s house in Worlaby to Brigg.
Market Rasen
In Market Rasen the tiny chapel built in 1782 was proving to be too small for the congregation. So after serving the Catholic community for 41 years, it was decided to build a replacement just outside the town. The Stamford Mercury describes the chapel as a “splendid edifice”. People at the time would have been impressed by its size; it was indeed an imposing edifice. The 1782 house and chapel were sold for £580 and the money used towards the construction of the new chapel, which cost an impressive (in 1823) £1834.14s. 9d. The building was protected by an a still extant high brick wall.
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