Brunswick Village, Mason Street, Benson Memorial Church

HER Number:
14540

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Brunswick Village, Mason Street, Benson Memorial Church

Place:
Brunswick

Map Sheet:
NZ27SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
United Methodist Free Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
United Free Church built at Dinnington Colliery in 1874. Now 'Classic Fireplaces'. Cost £630. Gable-fronted, snecked stone. 1899 schoolroom to rear. Datestone and a roundel in the north gable survive. All original openings have been removed. The main building is now a featureless box.

Easting:
2317

Northing:
7270

Grid Reference:
NZ23177270

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside - a survey January/February 2012