Chapel Street, United Methodist Chapel

HER Number

13782

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Chapel Street, United Methodist Chapel

Place

Coxlodge

Map Sheet

NZ26NW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

United Methodist Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Demolished Building

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1858. Built in 1817. Rebuilt in 1874. Known as Fawdon Chapel. Seated 150. It was used as a schoolroom during the week. In the 1920s there was a Coxlodge United Methodist Football Team. Demolished in the early 1960s for road widening. A new chapel was built nearby in 1964.

Easting

423050

Northing

568270

Grid Reference

NZ423050568270

Sources

Ordnance Survey First Edition Map 1858; Millie Walker, 1994, Bygone Fawdon & Coxlodge; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside - a survey January/February 2012