Front Street, Wesleyan Methodist Church
Front Street, Wesleyan Methodist Church
HER Number
15295
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Front Street, Wesleyan Methodist Church
Place
Tynemouth
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
Built in 1870. By FRN Haswell. Big Doric-fronted chapel, seated 717. Wesleyan congregation left to join with Congregational church around 1934. Church then became the Carlton Cinema until 1976. Demolished 1978.
Easting
437020
Northing
569420
Grid Reference
NZ437020569420
Sources
Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle & North Tyneside