New Trimdon Street, Wesley Hall

HER Number

13184

District

Sunderland

Site Name

New Trimdon Street, Wesley Hall

Place

Millfield

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition of 1919. Replaces an earlier chapel and school (HER 13182 and 13183). Closed 1971, congregation to Pallion Methodist Church. Old photograph (www.durham-images.org) shows brick Georgian-style three-bay gable-fronted chapel with ashlar cornice and inscription ‘WESLEY CHAPEL’ with oculus and segmental arch in gable above. Is this the earlier chapel?

Easting

438810

Northing

557380

Grid Reference

NZ438810557380

Sources

Ordnance Survey third edition 1919; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland