660 Durham Road, Chowdene Community Church
660 Durham Road, Chowdene Community Church
HER Number
7460
District
Gateshead
Site Name
660 Durham Road, Chowdene Community Church
Place
Low Fell
Map Sheet
NZ25NE
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
Extant Building
Description
Chowdene Chapel was built in 1880 and opened in 1881 to house a Primitive Methodist congregation who had been renting the former New Connexion Bethany Chapel. It cost £900 and seated 200; in 1925 structural problems affecting the north wall prompted major works; the congregation moved to Wesley Memorial Church on the opposite side of the road in 1965 and the building was sold to the Brethren, with whom it remains in use (Chowdene Community Church).
Over one round-headed window is a stone plaque 'ROBERT ARMSTRONG MEMORIAL 1901'.
LOCAL LIST
Over one round-headed window is a stone plaque 'ROBERT ARMSTRONG MEMORIAL 1901'.
LOCAL LIST
Easting
425830
Northing
559750
Grid Reference
NZ425830559750
Sources
Gateshead Council Local List Fact Sheet X20/LL/080; Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels of Gateshead