Blaydon, Shibdon Road, Trinity Methodist Church

HER Number:
15475

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Blaydon, Shibdon Road, Trinity Methodist Church

Place:
Blaydon

Map Sheet:
NZ16SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Nonconformist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Methodist Church. Sandstone. There were two Wesleyan Methodist Churches in Blaydon. This one at Shibdon Road/Lucy Street and St. John's (HER 6018), which was further east along Shibdon Road. In 1944 these two Methodist societies and the Primitive Methodists at Albert Street amalgamated. This building was retained as a church and St. John's became a Sunday School and church hall.

Easting:
1856

Northing:
6322

Grid Reference:
NZ18566322

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey Second Edition Map, 1890; Susan Lynn, 7 April 2017, St. John's Wesleyan Methodist Church, Blaydon, County Durham https://www.mywesleyanmethodists.org.uk/content/chapels/county-durham/blaydon_st_johns_wesleyan_methodist_church; Tyne and Wear Archives, church records 1887-1954; The History of Blaydon (TWAS)