Monkwearmouth, Dock Street, Methodist Chapel

HER Number:
16291

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Monkwearmouth, Dock Street, Methodist Chapel

Place:
Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet:

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:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Wesleyan Reform Methodist chapel and Sunday School shown on First Edition Ordnance Survey plan on Dock Street. Built 1850/1851, rebuilt 1867, closed 1963? Breakaway from Whitburn Street Wesleyan Methodist Church. First building ‘a large brick edifice’ cost £800 and seated 700 (Whellan 1856, 666) -1851 building cost £800.

Easting:
4013

Northing:
5801

Grid Reference:
NZ40135801

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Allen Archaeology, 2012, Dame Dorothy House, Dock Street, Sunderland - archaeological assessment; First Edition Ordnance Survey, 1855; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; Whellan, 1856, Trade Directory, p666