Church Hall and Lecture Room, Brunswick Place
Church Hall and Lecture Room, Brunswick Place
HER Number
15297
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Church Hall and Lecture Room, Brunswick Place
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Civil
Site Type: Broad
Meeting Hall
Site Type: Specific
Church Hall
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Built in 1884, the gift of Mrs Susanna Gibson in memory of her sister and niece. A plaque read: "TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF HER SISTER JANE, THE WIFE OF THOMAS CUMMINGS GIBSON, FORMERLY OF THIS CITY, BORN 8.7.1797, DIED 18.12.1835, AND OF THEIR DAUGHTER SUSANNA, BORN 3.7.1827, DIED 6.6.1880, WHO IN THEIR GENERATION SERVED THE COUNSEL OF GOD AND NOW REST FROM THEIR LABOURS. THIS BUILDING WAS ERECTED FOR THE SERVICE OF THE WESLEYAN METHODIST CHURCH, BRUNSWICK PLACE, BY SUSANNA GIBSON AD 1884. THEY THAT TURN MANY TO RIGHTEOUSNESS SHALL SHINE AS THE STARS FOR EVER & EVER". Mrs Gibson instructed the trustees that the building should be used only for society, congregational or school purposes. The German Evangelical Church used the lecture hall from 1900 to 1908. In the mid 1950s additional rooms and residential accomodation for the chapel caretaker and Deaconess were added.
Easting
424840
Northing
564510
Grid Reference
NZ424840564510
Sources
Geoffrey Fisher and Rev. Terry Hurst, North East Methodist History Society, 2009, Brunswick Place 1821-1992, Newcastle upon Tyne; S Middlebrook, 1968, Newcastle upon Tyne: Its Growth and Achievement