constructed for very different purposes, it is to this omission of having evening lectures in the churches, that the methodists and other dissenters owe their crowded audiences, and not to the greater purity of their creeds, or the superior abilities and respectability of their ministers. [Picture: N. W. view of Chapel & Burial Ground] 2. ST. NICHOLAS’S CHAPEL. Both _Mackerell_ and _Parkin_ have employed their pens in describing this respectable fabrick. But a much better account of it, and the best, no doubt, that has ever yet been given, came from the pen of the _revd. Edward Edwards_, one of the present ministers of the town, and has appeared in the 7th. number of the 3rd. volume of _Britton’s Architectural Antiquities_. From that and other accounts we learn, that this chapel, was built in the latter part of the 14th century on the site of another erected about two centuries before, and of much smaller dimensions. Mackerell seemed much puzzled to determine to what Nicholas this sacred building had been dedicated, whether _the proselyte of Antioch_, mentioned in the book of Acts, or _the bishop of Myra_ of the same name, who so stoutly opposed the Arians at the Council of Nice. After all, it seems not very likely that it was either of them, but a namesake of theirs, of a much more modern date. {1093} This, however, is a question in which few of the readers of this work will feel themselves much interested. This elegant edifice is supposed to be the largest parochial chapel in the kingdom. [Picture: St. Nicholas Chapel]