Howard Street, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Howard Street, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
HER Number
4571
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Howard Street, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Place
North Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
Methodist Chapel in Howard Street. Shown on Woods map of 1827. Built in 1807 or 1808, cost £2500, seated 2000. In 1891 the chapel became a theatre when Albion Road Memorial Church was built. In 1908 it became a cinema (Howard Hall) and was still operating in 1933. The cinema was known locally as 'The Ranch' because it showed lots of westerns.
Easting
435690
Northing
568300
Grid Reference
NZ435690568300
Sources
<< HER 4571 >> J. Woods, 1826, Plan of the Towns of North Shields and Tynemouth; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle & North Tyneside; Eric Hollerton, 1997, The Archive Photographs Series - North Shields