Beach Road, Church of SS. Paul and John
Beach Road, Church of SS. Paul and John
HER Number
9686
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Beach Road, Church of SS. Paul and John
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Presbyterian Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
United Reformed (Presbyterian) church, 1875-7 (datestone 1876). Big, very coarse Decorated church, rock-faced, with outsize cresting to the north-west tower. Symbolically carved tympanum. LOCAL LIST
Easting
436742
Northing
566938
Grid Reference
NZ436742566938
Sources
N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 418; North East War Memorials Project www.newmp.org.uk S86.011; South Tyneside Council, 2011, Locally Significant Heritage Assets, REFERENCE NUMBER: LSHA/48/SS; Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist chapels of South Shields