Ocean Road, Baptist Free Church

HER Number

17657

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Ocean Road, Baptist Free Church

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

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

Demolished Building

Description

The 1890s OS 10ft :1 mile town plan shows a Baptist Free Church on the south side of Ocean Road, which seated 450. The 1915 3rd edition 25”:1 mile map shows it to have become a picture house. It has been demolished.

Easting

436780

Northing

567400

Grid Reference

NZ436780567400

Sources

Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in South Tyneside