Wesleyan Methodist Chapel 1 (now vestry)

HER Number:
11570

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel 1 (now vestry)

Place:
Walbottle

Map Sheet:
NZ16NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
The original Wesleyan chapel is now used as the Church Hall for the slightly later listed Methodist Church (HER 8890) which is adjacent to the west. It is T-plan in shape and is built of hammer-dressed coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins. The roof is hipped slate with stone coping. The chapel is one storey, of three bays, with a projecting left porch, renewed double door and pointed arched front porch window with intersecting glazing bars. Round headed windows with renewed glazing in keyed surrounds and projecting stone sills flank the porch.

Easting:
417010

Northing:
566210

Grid Reference:
NZ417010566210

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey First Edition, 1858; Newcastle City Council, 2009, Walbottle Village Conservation Area Character Statement and Management Plan, pages 13-14; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and N Tyneside