Bensham, Bensham Road, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

HER Number

17718

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Bensham, Bensham Road, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

Place

Bensham

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

A large chapel built in what was described as a Greco-Italian style, designed by the son of a former pastor Philip Haswell. Opened in 1872 (two years after a Sunday School) at a cost of nearly £10,000, and could seat 900. It closed in 1962 and was demolished in early 1967. Site now occupied by Tyne View Nursing Home.

Easting

424820

Northing

562410

Grid Reference

NZ424820562410

Sources

Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in Gateshead; http://www.gatesheadhistory.com/wesleyan-methodist-church.html; Gateshead Library, photograph of interior, 1966, Reference Number: GL010975 and colour-tinted photograph of exterior, 1908, Reference Number: GL010964