Bath Lane, Congregational Church

HER Number:
6440

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Bath Lane, Congregational Church

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Congregational Chapel

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
A Congregational church was built on the corner of the newly formed Corporation Street and Bath Lane in 1860 for the preacher, doctor and educationalist John Hunter Rutherford. In 1939 it was replaced by the West End Congregational Church, Two Ball Lonnen. The building to the rear was Rutherford College Boys' School, built 1894. It later became the College of Arts and Techology before being demolished in 1987.

Easting:
424270

Northing:
564260

Grid Reference:
NZ424270564260

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey second edition 1890; A.D. Walton, 1998, Bygone Arthurs Hill and Westgate; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside, a survey