Forster Street, Glassite Chapel

HER Number

14657

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Forster Street, Glassite Chapel

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Sandemanian Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

On 1860 Ordnance Survey but gone by 1896 edition. Small building built against internal face of a short surviving section of medieval town wall (HER 1563). The Glassite movement was founded by John Glass after his expulsion from the Church of Scotland in 1728. It was spread to England by his son-in-law, Robert Sandeman.

Easting

425530

Northing

564070

Grid Reference

NZ425530564070

Sources

Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside, a survey