Nelson Street, Primitive Methodist Chapel

HER Number

7869

District

Gateshead

Site Name

Nelson Street, Primitive Methodist Chapel

Place

Gateshead

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

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

Documentary Evidence

Description

Built in 1853, it was later used by a firm of manufacturing chemists. The Rector, Rev. W Moore Ede supplied cheap "penny dinners" to the needy.

Easting

425540

Northing

563370

Grid Reference

NZ425540563370

Sources

D. Lumley, 1932, The Story of Gateshead Town - From the earliest age to the mid Victorian, p 128