Gateshead, Melbourne Street, Bethesda Chapel
Gateshead, Melbourne Street, Bethesda Chapel
HER Number
7870
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Gateshead, Melbourne Street, Bethesda Chapel
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Methodist New Connexion Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
Belonged to the Methodist New Connexion. Opened in 1836. General Booth, founder of the Salvation Army was given his first permanent minister's post here. Later the printing works of Howe Brothers. Demolished in 1964.
Easting
425500
Northing
563300
Grid Reference
NZ425500563300
Sources
D. Lumley, 1932, The Story of Gateshead Town - From the earliest age to the mid Victorian, p 128; I.C. Carlton, 1974, A Short History of Gateshead, pp 33-34