Low Fell, Church Road, Wesleyan Meeting House
Low Fell, Church Road, Wesleyan Meeting House
HER Number
17709
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Low Fell, Church Road, Wesleyan Meeting House
Place
Low Fell
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building?
Description
The old meeting house here (NZ 2603 6003) is said to have been the first Wesleyan building on County Durham, built in 1754. On the photograph below the taller block at the far (east) end of the row appears to be the meeting house (the road was formerly ‘Meeting House Lane’. In 1898 it was replaced by the present ‘Wesley Manse’ but map evidence shows that this stands on exactly the same footprint, slightly skew to the road, as the meeting house. So does the building survive, perhaps partly refaced?
Easting
426030
Northing
560030
Grid Reference
NZ426030560030
Sources
Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in Gateshead; http://www.gateshead-history.com/low-fell.html