Bewicke Main, Primitive Methodist Chapel

HER Number:
13265

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Bewicke Main, Primitive Methodist Chapel

Place:
Beamish Burn

Map Sheet:
NZ25SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Primitive Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Rectangular corrugated iron Primitive Methodist chapel with a small gabled porch. The long walls had four pointed arched windows, with a fifth in the brick gable end section. Similar windows were located on either side of the porch, and one above it. The roof was also of corrugated iron, extending over the brick end. At the gable there was a bargeboard with scalloped edge and fretted features. At the gable there was a steeple and a chimney. The chapel was at the bottom end of High Row and opened in 1901. The land had been bought from the coal company for 1/-. The last service was in 1938.

Easting:
2533

Northing:
5619

Grid Reference:
NZ25335619

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Norman Emery, 1990, Corrugated Iron Public Buildings in County Durham, Durham Archaeological Journal, Vol 6, 1990, page 67; Dixon R, McMillan E, Turnbull L, no date, Changing Kibblesworth, Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council Department of Education Local Studies, series 4