Bensham, Rawling Road, Trinity Primitive Methodist Church
Bensham, Rawling Road, Trinity Primitive Methodist Church
HER Number
17731
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Bensham, Rawling Road, Trinity Primitive Methodist Church
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Primitive Methodist Chapel
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Opened as a Primitive Methodist Church in 1900 and known variously as Trinity, Rawling Road and Whitehall Road West Methodist Church. The original building lay on the north of the present structure and later formed a church hall; it has now been replaced by other structures. The present church of bright orange brick with ashlar dressings is dated ‘1925’; it closed in 1994. The building is now a surgery.
Easting
424840
Northing
561820
Grid Reference
NZ424840561820
Sources
Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in Gateshead