Wesleyan Cottage

HER Number

11368

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Wesleyan Cottage

Place

Killingworth

Map Sheet

NZ27SE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Former Wesleyan chapel built in 1834. Remained a chapel until 1857. A post office from 1898.

Easting

427940

Northing

571000

Grid Reference

NZ427940571000

Sources

Maurice Milne, 2003, Ye Historie of Killingworth, second edition, Killingworth Local History Society; W.G. Elliott, Bygone Days of Longenton, Benton, Forest Hall, West Moor, Killingworth, Palmersville and Benton Square, Book 2, p 74; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle & North Tyneside