Model Terrace, Wesleyan Chapel

HER Number

16888

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Model Terrace, Wesleyan Chapel

Place

Penshaw

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

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

Model Terrace (formerly Double Row). C18 – 1980s. Whellan 1856 states this was the oldest Wesleyan Chapel in the neighbourhood, where John Wesley is said to have preached, although the 1940 circuit list gives New Penshaw Chapel as Primitive Methodist.

Easting

432170

Northing

553650

Grid Reference

NZ432170553650

Sources

The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; First Edition Ordnance Survey, 1862; Whellan, 1856, History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham, p639; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, Penshaw: Not just a monument - Historic Village Atlas