Tyne and Wear HER(10083): Clayton Road, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel - Details
10083
Newcastle
Clayton Road, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Jesmond
NZ26NE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Place of Worship
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
POST MEDIEVAL
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Demolished Building
Opened in 1883 as an overflow for Brunswick Methodist Chapel in Newcastle. A temporary iron chapel was in use from 1877 until the new church was built. Trustees and guarantors included E.M. Bainbridge, T.H. Bainbridge, G.B. Bainbridge, J.J. Fenwick, W.D. Stephens and W.H. Stephenson. The architect was J.J. Lish. The church was modified gothic style and seated 850. The chapel included a lecture hall, large vestry, caretaker's accomodation, a clock tower and spire. It cost nearly £7000. The chapel was demolished in 1981. Pilgrim's Court, flats managed by the Methodist Homes for the Aged was built in its place. The congregation continued to meet in the church hall until 1990, when it amalgamated with Jesmond Methodist Church, St. George's Terrace
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Shown on Ordnance Survey Second Edition of 1896; Alan Morgan, 2010, Jesmond from mines to mansions, page 44; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside, a survey; photograph by Sawyer and Son, 1883, in Geoff Lowe, 2016, Don't Look at the Camera - Lyddell Sawyer Photographer 1856-1927; Tyne and Wear Archives, C. NC88 church registers, minutes, accounts, pulpit notices 1877-1990, Accessions 204 (part), 434 (part), 451 (part), 878 (part), 1562 (part), 2682 (part), 2730, 3122, 3482 (part)