Low Moorsley, Front St, Wesleyan Chapel

HER Number

16906

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Low Moorsley, Front St, Wesleyan Chapel

Place

Moorsley

Map Sheet

NZ34NW

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

Western chapel (Wesleyan). 1858 (dated) – 1960s? Whellan refers to chapel erected in 1844 by North Hetton Coal Co. ‘the lower part is used as a school’, presumably a previous building?. Now boat store; stone with ashlar detailing.

Easting

434060

Northing

546160

Grid Reference

NZ434060546160

Sources

The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; Whellan, 1862, History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham p773; Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas