Cornwallis Street, Primitive Methodist Church
Cornwallis Street, Primitive Methodist Church
HER Number
4595
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Cornwallis Street, Primitive Methodist Church
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
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
The first Primitive Methodist Church building in South Shields opened in 1823 in Cornwallis Street, seating 900 and built at a cost of £1,600; it was rebuilt in 1865. The church was built on glebe land and known as ‘The Glebe’, the name being transferred to the new church which replaced it in 1890. Only shown on the 1827 Wood map and the 1st edition Ordnance Survey,
Easting
436160
Northing
567010
Grid Reference
NZ436160567010
Sources
<< HER 4595 >>J. Woods, 1826, Plan of the Towns of North Shields and Tynemouth; Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels of South Shields