Shieldfield, Clarence Street, Shieldfield Methodist Church

HER Number:
14728

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Shieldfield, Clarence Street, Shieldfield Methodist Church

Place:
Shieldfield

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Wesleyan Methodist Church. The Sunday School was built in 1863, the church 1868. In use until 1968. From 1902 when a new hall was ended, the church was known as East End Mission. A large Gothic Building, with a gabled front flanked by stair turrets to the galleries. Seated 500. Demolished in 1969.

Easting:
2575

Northing:
6473

Grid Reference:
NZ25756473

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and N Tyneside, a survey