Bewicke Main, Primitive Methodist Chapel

Bewicke Main, Primitive Methodist Chapel

HER Number
13265
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Bewicke Main, Primitive Methodist Chapel
Place
Beamish Burn
Map Sheet
NZ25SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Primitive Methodist Chapel
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
Rectangular corrugated iron Primitive Methodist chapel with a small gabled porch. The long walls had four pointed arched windows, with a fifth in the brick gable end section. Similar windows were located on either side of the porch, and one above it. The roof was also of corrugated iron, extending over the brick end. At the gable there was a bargeboard with scalloped edge and fretted features. At the gable there was a steeple and a chimney. The chapel was at the bottom end of High Row and opened in 1901. The land had been bought from the coal company for 1/-. The last service was in 1938.
Easting
425330
Northing
556190
Grid Reference
NZ425330556190
Sources
Norman Emery, 1990, Corrugated Iron Public Buildings in County Durham, Durham Archaeological Journal, Vol 6, 1990, page 67; Dixon R, McMillan E, Turnbull L, no date, Changing Kibblesworth, Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council Department of Education Local Studies, series 4