Bethel Chapel

HER Number

16336

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Bethel Chapel

Place

Easington Lane

Map Sheet

NZ34NE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Nonconformist Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Bethal Chapel, belonged to the Independents. It is recorded by Whellan in 1856 as being a small structure erected in 1832 and enlarged in 1842. Closed c.1960.

Easting

436230

Northing

546070

Grid Reference

NZ436230546070

Sources

Whellan, W, 1856, History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas p125;