Johnson Street, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Johnson Street, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
HER Number
17666
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Johnson Street, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
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
Demolished Building
Description
Shown as a Wesleyan Chapel on the 1st edition OS map but simply as ‘nonconformist’ chapel on the 1890s 10ft:1 mile town plan. A substantial building which seated 500, the building survived until the 1950s.
Brick, two storeys. Round-arched windows on ground floor, rectangular windows on first floor.
Brick, two storeys. Round-arched windows on ground floor, rectangular windows on first floor.
Easting
435750
Northing
566440
Grid Reference
NZ435750566440
Sources
Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in South Tyneside; http://bede-circuit.weebly.com/some-of-our-old-churches.html