Bright Street, Bethesda Hallgarth Mission
Bright Street, Bethesda Hallgarth Mission
HER Number
16295
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Bright Street, Bethesda Hallgarth Mission
Place
Monkwearmouth
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
Building
Description
Bethesda Hallgarth Mission (Primitive Methodist) Chapel shown on Bright Street on the First Edition Ordnance Survey plan, 1855. Still labelled as church 1973. Origins in ‘revivalist enthusiasm’ at activities of Hettie Gutcher, the‘girl-singing-preacher – became the ‘Gutcher-Johnson Memorial Church’. Rebuilt 1928, destroyed in World War II, reopened 1951.
Easting
440080
Northing
558170
Grid Reference
NZ440080558170
Sources
Allen Archaeology, 2012, Dame Dorothy House, Dock Street, Sunderland - archaeological assessment; Second Edition Ordnance Survey, 1897; The Archaeological Practice Ltd. 2014, List of Non Conformist Chapels in Sunderland