Bright Street, Bethesda Hallgarth Mission

HER Number:
16295

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Bright Street, Bethesda Hallgarth Mission

Place:
Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet:

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Primitive Methodist Chapel

General Period:
POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period:
Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence:
Building

Description:
Bethesda Hallgarth Mission (Primitive Methodist) Chapel shown on Bright Street on the First Edition Ordnance Survey plan, 1855. Still labelled as church 1973. Origins in ‘revivalist enthusiasm’ at activities of Hettie Gutcher, the‘girl-singing-preacher – became the ‘Gutcher-Johnson Memorial Church’. Rebuilt 1928, destroyed in World War II, reopened 1951.

Easting:
440080

Northing:
558170

Grid Reference:
NZ440080558170

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Allen Archaeology, 2012, Dame Dorothy House, Dock Street, Sunderland - archaeological assessment; Second Edition Ordnance Survey, 1897; The Archaeological Practice Ltd. 2014, List of Non Conformist Chapels in Sunderland