Bewicke Main, institute

HER Number:
13266

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Bewicke Main, institute

Place:
Beamish Burn

Map Sheet:
NZ25SE

Class:
Education

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Institute

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
T-shaped institute with a side porch, near the Primitive Methodist chapel (HER 13265). The structure was built on a brick footing. It was lit by tall rectangular windows with hood mouldings. The gables had plain barge boards, with a collar and king post timbering extending above the ridge as a turned point. The roof ridge was lined with crockets. The institute opened in 1901. The colliery closed in 1932, and the village was demolished.

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; Durham Record Office (B12) B/BEW/GOO Goodley, H, Bewicke Main: The Colliery Village which Disappeared