Railway Street, Primitive Methodist Church

This building was listed Grade II in 1985 with the following description:
'Chapel, 1858 dated on plaque in central gable. Coursed squared sandstone front with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings, other walls limestone rubble. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys and basement, 3 bays. Tripartite central windows, those on first floor stepped, round-arched with keystones, the whole under wide round relieving arch. Facing rendered flights of steps, with iron handrails, to double doors with fanlights and keystones in outer bays. These are set in raised ashlar panels whose cornices form projecting cills to keyed, round-arched windows above. Sash windows mostly with margin lights; some alteration to glazing in central windows. Blank stuccoed panels above side windows. PRIMITIVE METHODIST CHAPEL on central first floor band. Sloping coped side parapets, defined by raised arched end blocks. Dropped, shaped central gable with pediment-like top feature. Round-arched upper windows on returns. Historical note: said to incorporate stone sleeper blocks from George Stephenson's Hetton Colliery railway, and to have been built by the miners of Hetton Colliery.' LISTED GRADE 2