Temple Town, Wesleyan Chapel

Temple Town, Wesleyan Chapel

HER Number
17662
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Temple Town, Wesleyan Chapel
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
Templetown Wesleyan Chapel is recorded as having been built in 1826 and closing in 1882.

A 1904 photograph shows it in use by Newton & Nicholson (J.S. Nicholson Sole Proprietor) Tyne Dock Corrugated Metallic Packing Works. Single storey with rectangular windows. A corrugated packing works is shown on the OS third edition of 1919.
Easting
435540
Northing
565610
Grid Reference
NZ435540565610
Sources
Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in South Tyneside; http://www.southtynesidehistory.co.uk/archive/architecture/places-of-worship/625639