Robinson Street, Primitive Methodist Chapel

HER Number

3611

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Robinson Street, Primitive Methodist Chapel

Place

Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Built in 1859 on Grey Horse Lane, later called Robinson Street. The address was No. 32 Robinson Street. In 1875 land was pruchased from George Hopper on which to build a new Primitive Chapel (see HER 15958). The Robinson Street chapel was sold to the Houghton Miners Lodge.

Easting

434110

Northing

550280

Grid Reference

NZ434110550280

Sources

Ordnance Survey second edition 1890; Paul Lanagan, 2012, Houghton Methodist Churches, www.houghtonlespring.org.uk; Paul Lanagan, 2013, Houghton's first Methodists founders of a proud tradition, article in Seaham and Houghton Star, Wednesday 24 July 2013; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland