Sheriff's Highway, United Methodist Free Church
Sheriff's Highway, United Methodist Free Church
HER Number
11913
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Sheriff's Highway, United Methodist Free Church
Place
Sheriff Hill
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
United Methodist Free Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
A chapel (NZ 2644 6081) built in 1864 to seat 300; it was stone, in a Gothic style, with a Sunday school in the basement. A modern Methodist church stands near the site.
Easting
426440
Northing
560810
Grid Reference
NZ426440560810
Sources
Gateshead Council, April 1999, Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategies and Character Statements, Proposed Sheriff Hill Conservation Area, pp 79-82 (Supplementary Planning Guidance); Gateshead Council, July 2003, Sheriff Hill Conservation Area Policy Guidelines, Strategy and Character Statement (Appendix to Supplementary Planning Guidance 1), pp 14-19; Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels of Gateshead