Wallis Street, Congregational Church
Wallis Street, Congregational Church
HER Number
17644
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Wallis Street, Congregational Church
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Congregational Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
A church only shown on the 1st edition OS map,; built in 1824. In 1882 it became the Gospel Temperance Hall (surviving programmes for events here showed it functioned in this role until at least1916). Later it became the King’s Picture House, and Alexandra Theatre which closed in 1940, after which it was used as a warehouse until demolished in 1960.
Easting
436210
Northing
567070
Grid Reference
NZ436210567070
Sources
Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in South Tyneside; http://www.southtynesideimages.org.uk