Laygate Lane, Primitive Methodist Chapel

HER Number

17674

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Laygate Lane, Primitive Methodist Chapel

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Primitive Methodist Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

A substantial chapel built in 1881 for £6,000, and seating 800. Ordnance Survey maps show that in the 1950s it served as a slipper factory, and in the 1970s as a club; it has since been demolished.

Easting

436050

Northing

566290

Grid Reference

NZ436050566290

Sources

Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in South Tyneside; http://www.myprimitivemethodists.org.uk/page/south_shields_co_durham