Mr. Hincksman’s Chapel, later known as Bath Street Methodist Church, was a Wesleyan chapel built in Lytham in 1846, funded largely by Thomas Crouch Hincksman, a Preston cotton spinner. The origins of Methodism in Lytham started from a cottage in Bath Street, which was a licensed preaching house. In 1846 a chapel which could accommodate 200 worshippers was built in Bath Street by T.C. Hincksman but by 1868 this was not large enough to hold all the summer visitors and it was replaced in 1868 by much large premises on Park Street. It was subsequently used as the first Lytham… Read more »
