Albion Road, Memorial Church

HER Number

7275

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Albion Road, Memorial Church

Place

North 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

Extant Building

Description

Non-conformist church; Sunday School (now social centre) and minister's house. 1889-91 by F.R.N. Haswell for Wesleyan Methodists at expense of J. Robinson in memory of daughter Elizabeth. Restored 1981 for North Tyneside Memorial Church. Snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings. Lakeland slate roofs with stone gable copings and ornamental ridge tiles. Church is aligned north-south, tower at ritual north-west. Aisled nave with south-west apsidal-ended chapel, transepts, chancel with porches. Doors in arches under 4-light west window with pink granite nook shafts. Tower has gargoyles on parapet. Octagonal stair turret continues to higher level. Interior - plaster with ashlar dressings above boarded dado, cast-iron columns, hammer-beam roof. Most original fittings survive. The former Sunday school has a double boarded door under an arch and lancet and cinquefoil windows. The minister's house is in similar materials and style. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

435610

Northing

568750

Grid Reference

NZ435610568750

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 12/36; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels in Newcastle and North Tyneside; Eric Hollerton, 1997, The Archive Photographs Series - North Shields