Gosforth, Armstrong Street, Wesleyan Chapel

HER Number:
14622

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Gosforth, Armstrong Street, Wesleyan Chapel

Place:
Gosforth

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Bulman Village Chapel. Built 1841. Wesleyan 1841-1850. Reform/United Free Methodist 1859-1860. Primitive Methodist 1860-1882. Then became Zion House. This was a small and simple chapel side-on to street with three pairs of arched windows and porch. Its original 1841 datestone was found in 1940 and taken to Salters Road Chapel, then moved again in 1953 to the façade of Trinity Church, where it can still be seen. The village chapel was demolished.

Easting:
2442

Northing:
6795

Grid Reference:
NZ24426795

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside, a survey; sketch by Gilbert Richards, 1841; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Methodist churches on or near Gosforth High Street, a note