Bath Lane, Congregational Church
Bath Lane, Congregational Church
HER Number
6440
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Bath Lane, Congregational Church
Place
Newcastle
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Congregational Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
A Congregational church was built on the corner of the newly formed Corporation Street and Bath Lane in 1860 for the preacher, doctor and educationalist John Hunter Rutherford. In 1939 it was replaced by the West End Congregational Church, Two Ball Lonnen. The building to the rear was Rutherford College Boys' School, built 1894. It later became the College of Arts and Techology before being demolished in 1987.
Easting
424270
Northing
564260
Grid Reference
NZ424270564260
Sources
Ordnance Survey second edition 1890; A.D. Walton, 1998, Bygone Arthurs Hill and Westgate; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside, a survey