Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

HER Number

9665

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

Place

Newbottle

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Date 1786 on a twentieth century stone refers to the founding of the Wesleyan Society in this village. The present building is of c.1860. School and hall extension of 1872.

Easting

433890

Northing

551460

Grid Reference

NZ433890551460

Sources

N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 332; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland, Stell, 1994, An Inventory of Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in the North of England, 66