Nesham Place, United Methodist Chapel
Nesham Place, United Methodist Chapel
HER Number
8717
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Nesham Place, United Methodist Chapel
Place
Houghton-le-Spring
Map Sheet
NZ34NW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Methodist Reform Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
A small United Methodist Church (comprising the Wesleyan Association and Methodist Reformers) was built in Nesham Place in 1837. The land had been purchased for £120. In 1867 a new larger chapel was built fronting onto Nesham Place at a cost of £200 and the old chapel to the rear became school rooms. Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition of 1890 as chapel/The Tabernacles (Reform Methodists). In 1932 the Methodist Union joined together the Wesleyan, Primitive and United Methodists. In 1958 the Nesham Place Methodist Chapel celebrated its 121st anniversary. On 21st September 1980 Nesham Place Chapel closed. A house was later built on the site.
Easting
434550
Northing
549860
Grid Reference
NZ434550549860
Sources
Ordnance Survey 1858-1871 map; Ordnance Survey second edition 1890; Paul Lanagan, 2013, Houghton Methodist Churches, www.houghtonlespring.org.uk; Paul Lanagan, 2013, Methodists on the move as congregations grew, article in Seaham and Houghton Star, Wednesday 31 July 2013; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland