Sunderland, Sans Street, Wesleyan Chapel

HER Number:
15545

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Sans Street, Wesleyan Chapel

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Sans Street Methodist Chapel was built in 1791. It was an imposing late Georgian classical building. Most of its congregation were middle class merchants and financiers. It is shown on . J Rennie's, 1819-22, Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth and the First Edition 25" OS map of 1856. Goad's Insurance Plan of 1894 shows the chapel with steps up to the doors. Inside an organ at the north end and platform at the south end. No. 166 High Street West, adjoining to the west was used as class and class mission rooms. No. 162 to the immediate east was a hosier fronting onto High Street West, a tailor's fronting onto Sans Street and a Penny Savings Saving fronting onto Villiers Street. The chapel is still on Os maps of 1939 and 1955. In the 1960s the chapel was converted into a nightclub. It has since been demolished.

Easting:
4011

Northing:
5712

Grid Reference:
NZ40115712

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
NAA, 2013, 170-175 High Street West, Sunderland - Statement of Significance; Goad's Insurance Plan 1894; N. Kirtlan, no date, Places of Worship in Old Sunderland, p 21; . Rennie, 1819-22, Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth;