Middle Herrington, Crow Lane, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

HER Number

16560

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Middle Herrington, Crow Lane, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

Place

Middle Herrington

Map Sheet

NZ35SE

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

Extant Building

Description

Whellan's 1856 directory describes Middle Herrington as having a Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. A small stone building erected in 1839 at a cost of £250. It is labelled on the Second Edition Ordnance Survey plan c.1898.

Easting

435870

Northing

553090

Grid Reference

NZ435870553090

Sources

Whellan, W, 1856, History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham; Second Edition Ordnance Survey Plan, 1898; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, Penshaw: Not just a monument - Historic Village Atlas