Silver Street, Methodist Church

HER Number

14678

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Silver Street, Methodist Church

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Independent Methodist Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Hanoverian 1714 to 1837

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Independent Methodist Church built 1745 on site of a malt loft used for dissenters' worship since 1684. From 1826 until 1838 the building was a Primitive Methodist Church - the first in Newcastle. The congregation moved to Nelson Street in 1838.

Easting

425270

Northing

564060

Grid Reference

NZ425270564060

Sources

Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside, a survey