{{Short description|Grade II listed building in Grantham, Lincolnshire}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}} {{Use British English|date=November 2025}} {{Infobox church | name = Finkin Street Methodist Church | image = Finkin Street Wesleyan Chapel - geograph.org.uk - 280269.jpg | image_size = 200px | caption = Front of the church | coordinates = {{coord|52.912606| -0.641278|region:GB_type:landmark|display=title}} | pushpin_map = Lincolnshire | pushpin_mapsize = 250 | pushpin_label_position = top | location = [[Grantham]]
| country = England | denomination = [[Methodist]] | founded = 1840 | dedication = | status = [[Chapel]] | functional_status = Active | heritage_designation = [[Grade II listed|Grade II]] | designated = | style = | closed = }} '''Finkin Street Chapel''' is a [[Grade II]]<ref>{{NHLE |num=1062522 |accessdate=14 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{NHLE|num=1062522|grade=II|desc=Wesleyan Methodist Church|accessdate=24 May 2013}}</ref> listed building in [[Grantham]], [[Lincolnshire]]. The [[Wesleyan Methodist Church (Great Britain)|Wesleyan Methodist]] chapel was built in 1840 and was the childhood church of [[Margaret Thatcher]], former [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/margaret-thatcher/9992424/Margaret-Thatcher-her-unswerving-faith-shaped-by-her-father.html Margaret Thatcher: her unswerving faith shaped by her father], Sunday Telegraph, 14 April 2013</ref><ref name=GJ>{{cite news|title=Special service for Margaret Thatcher’s family at Grantham Methodist church|url=http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/local/special-service-for-margaret-thatcher-s-family-at-grantham-methodist-church-1-5007010|accessdate=21 May 2013|newspaper=Grantham Journal|date=21 May 2013}}</ref>
The chapel has a lectern dedicated to Thatcher's father, [[Alfred Roberts]], who was a [[local preacher]] there.<ref name=GJ/>
[[File:Wesleyan Chapel, Finkin Street, detail - geograph.org.uk - 5280790.jpg|thumb|left|Detail of the front of the building. It was originally a Wesleyan chapel.]] 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 a [[local ecumenical partnership]], 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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.christchurchgrantham.com/friends-of-christchurch-grantham.html |title="Friends of ChristChurch, Grantham" |access-date=2016-06-07 |archive-date=2016-06-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624061114/http://www.christchurchgrantham.com/friends-of-christchurch-grantham.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The congregation meeting weekly in the chapel is now known as ChristChurch.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.christchurchgrantham.com/about-us|publisher=ChristChurch Grantham |accessdate=9 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
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==External links== *[https://www.mywesleyanmethodists.org.uk/content/chapels/lincolnshire/grantham-christ-church-finkin-street-wesleyan-methodist-chapel-lincolnshire Grantham, Christ Church Finkin Street Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Lincolnshire] – My Wesleyan Methodists *[http://www.christchurchgrantham.com/ ChristChurch, Grantham website]
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[[Category:Methodist churches in Lincolnshire]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Grantham]] [[Category:19th-century Methodist church buildings]] [[Category:Churches completed in 1840]] [[Category:19th-century church buildings in England]] [[Category:Grade II listed churches in Lincolnshire]]