Ranter's Bank, Ranter's Chapel

HER Number

4576

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Ranter's Bank, Ranter's Chapel

Place

North 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

Documentary Evidence

Description

The Primitive Methodists of North Shields first met in a chapel on Ranter's Bank, but in 1861 moved to a new church in the town centre (HER ref. 4577).

Easting

435710

Northing

568230

Grid Reference

NZ435710568230

Sources

<< HER 4576 >> J. Woods, 1826, Plan of the Towns of North Shields and Tynemouth; E. Hollerton, 1997, The Archive Photography Series, North Shields, p 94; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle & North Tyneside