Clayton Street, Baptist Church

HER Number

17627

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Clayton Street, Baptist Church

Place

Jarrow

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Baptist Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Built in 1879, a sizable chapel with ‘capacious galleries’ that could seat 1000. Two storeys. Tall round-arched windows. Sandstone quoins. Sandstone datestone over main door. Still in use.

Easting

432570

Northing

565280

Grid Reference

NZ432570565280

Sources

Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in South Tyneside