Millfield, New Trimdon Street, Wesley Hall

HER Number:
13184

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Millfield, New Trimdon Street, Wesley Hall

Place:
Millfield

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey third edition of 1919. Replaces an earlier chapel and school (HER 13182 and 13183). Closed 1971, congregation to Pallion Methodist Church. Old photograph (www.durham-images.org) shows brick Georgian-style three-bay gable-fronted chapel with ashlar cornice and inscription ‘WESLEY CHAPEL’ with oculus and segmental arch in gable above. Is this the earlier chapel?

Easting:
3881

Northing:
5738

Grid Reference:
NZ38815738

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey third edition 1919; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland