Swine Alley, Methodist Meeting House

HER Number

17031

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Swine Alley, Methodist Meeting House

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Primitive Methodist Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Swine Alley, Methodist Meeting House 1740s – set up by Wesleys, first Methodist base in Sunderland. Location unknown but Swine Alley was somewhere between High Street and Trinity Place.

Easting

440000

Northing

557000

Grid Reference

NZ440000557000

Sources

The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland