Dock Street, Methodist Chapel

HER Number

16291

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Dock Street, Methodist Chapel

Place

Monkwearmouth

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Methodist Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Wesleyan Reform Methodist chapel and Sunday School shown on First Edition Ordnance Survey plan on Dock Street. Built 1850/1851, rebuilt 1867, closed 1963? Breakaway from Whitburn Street Wesleyan Methodist Church. First building ‘a large brick edifice’ cost £800 and seated 700 (Whellan 1856, 666) -1851 building cost £800.

Easting

440130

Northing

558010

Grid Reference

NZ440130558010

Sources

Allen Archaeology, 2012, Dame Dorothy House, Dock Street, Sunderland - archaeological assessment; First Edition Ordnance Survey, 1855; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; Whellan, 1856, Trade Directory, p666