In 1892 Alderman and Mrs W.H. Stephenson pledged to build a chapel (HER 14527) and Sunday School at a cost of £2500 in memory of the late Miss Charlotte Bond on a site which had previously been bought by her. The Sunday School was built first In 1893 to the west of the iron chapel. The Sunday School was built in Italian style, 90 feet long and 35 feet wide. It comprised a large hall, infants school and two classrooms on the ground floor. The caretaker's accommodation was on the first floor and heating equipment in the basement. The architects were Thompson and Selby of Pilgrim Street. The builders were Thirlwell & Son of Benwell Village. The foundation stone was laid on 1st March 1893. A time capsule bottle containing copies of the Newcastle daily papers, the Methodist Recorder, the Methodist Times and a Circuit Plan, was placed by Miss Stephenson, daughter of the Alderman, in a cavity under the south-east corner. After the ceremony a meeting was held in the iron chapel. The opening ceremony took place on 13th September 1893.

Elswick Road Wesleyan Circuit was formed in 1877 as an offshoot from Blenheim Street Circuit. A dwelling house on Adelaide Terrace, between Cochrane Street and Oak Street was rented for £20 per year to use as a Mission for New Benwell. A prayer meeting was held on 23rd November 1877 and the Mission for Divine Worship was opened on Sunday 25th November. The committee comprised Messrs. Stephenson, Ritson, Thompson, Chambers, Lawson, Walton and Rowland. The rented house soon proved to be too small and a site was soon found on which to build a chapel (HER 14528).

With the growth of Methodism in Benwell, the Mission from Adelaide Terrace (HER 14529) transferred to a corrugated iron chapel which stood on the site of the later Bond Memorial Church. The New Benwell Mission Committee bought the site for £510.17 from a Mr Neville in 1879 using money donated by Miss Charlotte Bond (sister-in-law of Sir William H. Stephenson). The opening service for the iron chapel was on Sunday 20th November 1881. Sermons were preached by Rev. Robert Cooke, Rev. H.S. Eckerley and Rev. John Holmes (Superintendent of the Elswick Road Wesleyan Circuit). There was a public meeting on Monday 21st November 1881.

Wesleyan Chapel. Now The Potter's House Christian Church. Built in 1899. This replaced an 1881 iron chapel (HER 14528). In 1892 Alderman and Mrs W.H. Stephenson pledged to build a chapel and Sunday School (HER 14530) at a cost of £2500 in memory of the late Miss Charlotte Bond (sister-in-law of Sir W H Stephenson) on a site which had previously been bought by her. The Wesleyan Chapel, seated 650 people. Large Italianate stone chapel with ashlar dressings. An enclosed link was added between the chapel and Sunday School in the mid C20. Originally there were terraced houses attached to the rear of the Sunday School. These were demolished in the 1960s/70s. The church is a two storey building of snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, slate roof. Its mildly eccentric styling incorporates Arts & Crafts and Romanesque influences. The south gable on Adelaide Terrace has two rows of windows. The upper windows are in the form of a Romanesque arcade. A lower two-storey projection to the right includes two entrances. There is a further entrance to the far left. There was originally a large bell cote on the roof, but this has been removed. Only the base remains. The church interior has been stripped out, the furnishings and gallery fronts removed. Recorded in 2016 by AB Heritage, at the time of recording a moderate amount of architrave survived at first floor level and stained glass in the northern elevation of the church, this original glass was commissioned in 1898-99.

ENGLISH BRIG, 1895. Built: 1867
Master: T Barden
Crew: 7
Crew Lost: 7
Owner: W Foreman, Whitstable, Kent

CRAFT, wrecked at Spanish Battery Point, 1843

1831 incident in which an English cargo vessel grounded on the Spanish Battery Rocks during a gale. In ballast from Great Yarmouth, she was a wooden sailing vessel, and was recovered within a few weeks.

SCOTTISH SLOOP, 1859 Built: 1789
Crew: 2

ENGLISH CRAFT, 1846 Master: Emmerson Raddock

1830 wreck of English lifeboat which stranded on the Spanish Battery in attempting to rescue the crew of another vessel which had stranded on the Black Middens. Constructed of wood, she was an oared rescue vessel, and was named the ORIGINAL in honour of her claim to fame as the first true lifeboat in the world. Built: 1789
Construction: double-ended, 10 oars; cork belt inside and outside hull
Crew: usually 22