Commercial Road, Baptist Meeting House

HER Number

4596

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Commercial Road, Baptist Meeting House

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Baptist Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

A chapel is shown on Richardson's plan of 1768, and on a plan of the Green Estate in 1769.

Easting

435880

Northing

566440

Grid Reference

NZ435880566440

Sources

<< HER 4596 >> G.B. Hodgson, 1903, The Borough of South Shields, p 101; Richardson, 1768, Plan of South Shields and Westoe; Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels of South Shields