Coxlodge, Chapel Street, United Methodist Chapel

HER Number:
13782

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Coxlodge, Chapel Street, United Methodist Chapel

Place:
Coxlodge

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
United Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey first edition map of 1858. Built in 1817. Rebuilt in 1874. Known as Fawdon Chapel. Seated 150. It was used as a schoolroom during the week. In the 1920s there was a Coxlodge United Methodist Football Team. Demolished in the early 1960s for road widening. A new chapel was built nearby in 1964.

Easting:
2305

Northing:
6827

Grid Reference:
NZ23056827

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey First Edition Map 1858; Millie Walker, 1994, Bygone Fawdon & Coxlodge; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside - a survey January/February 2012