Built in 1875 at a cost of £3000 on land bought from George Hopper (ironfounder). Opened in 1876 seated 350. In 1891 Thomas Davison presented a Communion jug and plates to the Trustees of Mautland Street Primitive Methodist Chapel. In 1932 the Methodist Union joined the Wesleyan, Primitive and United Methodists into the Methodist Church. In 1935 the chapel celebrated its Diamond Jubilee (1875-1935) with a Reunion Service on 11th May. During the Second World War the rear premises were requisitioned by the army. In 1947 several memorial windows were installed. A centenary event was held in 1976. In 1977 it was decided that Mautland Street and Nesham Place chapels should merge. The last service at Mautland Street chapel was on 22 July 1979. The following month the chapel was demolished. The foundation of the new church was laid on 26th July 1980. The new Houghton-le-Spring Methodist Church opened on 27 September 1980. When Houghton Colliery closed in 1981 commemorative lamps were presented to the church.

Opened in September 1855. By 1859 the Primitive Methodists moved to Robinson Street.

The pinfold was located in the Market Place at the junction of what is now Lake Road, Nesham Place and Gravel Walks. In 1796 the ten Methodists in Houghton met at the pinfold. Their names were John Ward (leader), Anne Ward, E. Matthews, E. Bowden, W. Collpits, J. Lee, Alice Watson, T. Nicholson, D. Moore and J. Findlater. Houghton's first Methodist was Matthew Errington who had heard John Wesley preach in London in 1740.

Thomas Bell 1774-1845 was an iron master at the Walker Iron Works of Losh, Wilson and Bell.

John Hawthorn. 1808-1866. His gravestone reads 'Surgeon of this town who died 1866 from Typhus fever taken in the discharge of his duties aged 58. This monument is erected by a few friends and patients of the deceased as a token of respect and esteem'.

John Harvey 1804-1893. John Harvey Senior opened a tobacco business on the head of The Side in 1762. His widow moved the business to nearby larger premises in 1783. Their grandson John Harvey moved the business to Hanover Square. He died at his home at Leazes Terrace in 1893. His younger business partner and son-in-law Herbert Davy 1834-1889 had died four years earlier aged 55. Herbert was American Vice Consul in Newcastle for 33 years. Their graves stand side-by-side.

1807-1890. John Fleming was a solicitor who bequeathed over £100,000 to local charities including what became the Fleming Memorial Hospital for Sick Children.

1789-1860. John Dove founded a cement business at The Close 1854.

1916-1986. Sid Chaplin was a writer. His first publication was a collection of short stories called 'The Leaping Lad' in 1946. He won an award from the Rockefeller Trust for this book. He returned to working as a colliery blacksmith when the money ran out. In 1950 he moved to London as chief reporter for the mining magazine 'Coal'. He returned to Newcastle some years later and wrote more books about north-east working class life, including 'The Watchers and the Watched' and 'The Day of the Sardine'. He was involved in the musical 'Close the Coalhouse Door'. He wrote scripts for the television series 'When the Boat Comes In'. In 1961 he helped form Northern Arts. In 1977 Sid Chaplin was awarded the OBE for his services to the Arts. His gravestone features two roughly cut natural-looking stones, one set up-end on the other and the lower one inscribed with a quill.

1856-1878. Campbell was the Scottish landlord of the Duke of Wellington on High Bridge. He was famous for his enormous weight. At his death aged 22 he weighed 53 stones and he was 6 feet 3 inches tall. His chest measurement was 96 inches. A winch had to be used to lower his lead-lined coffin out of the window of the third floor of the pub. The window frame and brickwork had to be removed. The coffin was taken to Jesmond on a black-draped horse-drawn lorry. There were said to be up to 40,000 spectators. At the cemetery 'a scene of most unseemly disorder ensued' according to a local newspaper, where people were crushed in the crowds and several were knocked into the grave. It took an hour to lower the coffin into the grave. No trace of the grave exists today. It was by the walk alongside Jesmond Road. Presumably it was exhumed in 1971, along with many other graves, for the proposed dualling of Jesmond Road.