Tatham Street, Bethesda Free Church

HER Number

4716

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Tatham Street, Bethesda Free Church

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Nonconformist Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

The Bethesda Free Chapel dates from 1844-5, with side galleries added in 1852. It was built for A.A. Rees and carries the date 1844 in the pediment. It is 2 stories high and was constructed in Garden wall bond brick and limestone rubble returns, with a rendered rear, ashlar sandstone plinth and painted ashlar dressings. The roof is of Welsh slate. Inside there is a font and a memorial to Arthur Augustus Rees, d.1884. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

440080

Northing

556770

Grid Reference

NZ440080556770

Sources

<< HER 4716 >> Buildings Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/14/217; North East War Memorials Project (www.newmp.org.uk) S140.111; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estate.