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Moulton Chapel is a village in the
South Holland
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district of
Lincolnshire, England. It is on the B1357 road, south from
Moulton, south-west from
Holbeach and 4 miles south-east from
Spalding. The village is in the
civil parish of
The Moultons
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where the population was 3,504 at the 2011 census.
History
In 1885 ''
Kelly's Directory'' noted Moulton Chapel as a
chapelry
A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland up to the mid 19th century.
Status
It had a similar status to a township but was so named as it had a chapel of ease (chapel) which was the communi ...
of Moulton, with a small octagonal chapel, erected in 1722. The living was a
perpetual curacy.
[''Kelly's Directory of Lincolnshire with the port of Hull'' 1885, p. 584]
The 1722 chapel of
St James Saint James or St. James may refer to:
People Saints
*James, brother of Jesus (died 62 or 69), also known as James the Just
*James the Great (died 44), Apostle, also known as James, son of Zebedee, or Saint James the Greater
**Saint James Matamoro ...
, by William Sands senior of Spalding, was a rebuild of an earlier chapel, and was enlarged in 1886. In 1896 Moulton Chapel became a separate
ecclesiastical parish under the name of Moulton St James.
[Cox, J. Charles (1916) ''Lincolnshire'' p. 233; Methuen & Co. Ltd.] ''
Pevsner'' notes the church as a red-brick octagon with a
chancel added in 1886, and a domed interior. The style is
Dutch, influenced by late 17th-century
fen drainers. There is a marble
font
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In mod ...
, and a west
gallery probably from the 19th century.
Pevsner, Nikolaus
Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner (30 January 1902 – 18 August 1983) was a German-British art historian and architectural historian best known for his monumental 46-volume series of county-by-county guides, ''The Buildings of England'' (19 ...
; Harris, John; ''The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire'' p. 608; Penguin, (1964); revised by Nicholas Antram (1989), Yale University Press. St James' is a
Grade II* listed building.
With St James', on Roman Road, is a Grade II listed 1865 red-brick
tower windmill.
In the late 1820s Thomas Nutt of Moulton Chapel developed and patented an improvement to beehives that allowed for heat regulation through improved ventilation, helped to prevent swarming, and encouraged bees to occupy other adjacent hives, thereby obviating the need to destroy bees in the collection of honey. The better welfare of bees produced a greater honey yield. Nutt laid out his invention in his 1832 book ''Humanity to Honey Bees''
Education
Moulton Chapel Primary School has National Healthy Schools Status and belongs to the Schools Sports Partnership. Its 2016
Ofsted
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Inspection judgement rated the school as 'Grade 2 Good' for overall effectiveness.
[(PD]
"Moulton Chapel Primary School"
Ofsted Inspection 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2012
References
External links
"Moulton" ''
Genuki.org.uk''. Retrieved 3 June 2012
"Moulton Chapel Primary School" Retrieved 3 June 2012
"Moulton Chapel Lincolnshire" A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 3 June 2012
"Fast End to a Ring Career" ''
The Milwaukee Journal'', 21 May 1966. Retrieved 3 June 2012
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Villages in Lincolnshire
South Holland, Lincolnshire