Fawcett Street, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

HER Number

13742

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Fawcett Street, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Wesleyan Methodist Chapel. 1835/7-1901/2 when the congregation moved to Durham Road Methodist Church. Described by Whellan as a neat strucure with front of cut stone in a Gothic style. Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map of 1896.

Easting

439710

Northing

557080

Grid Reference

NZ439710557080

Sources

Ordnance Survey Second Edition Map 1898; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; Whellan, 1856, History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham, p666; Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates.