Sunniside, Gateshead Road, Methodist New Connexion Chapel

HER Number:
16366

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Sunniside, Gateshead Road, Methodist New Connexion Chapel

Place:
Sunniside

Map Sheet:
NZ25NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Methodist New Connexion Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Built in 1837. When the present methodist chapel was built in 1910, this old chapel became the Sunday School, later a meeting hall. In 1940 a youth club was formed by the local Reverand, Tom Sanders. During the Second World War the Home Guard met here. The building was demolished in 2003. Replaced by a pair of new stone houses (NOS. 20 and 21 Granby Terrace).

Easting:
2097

Northing:
5876

Grid Reference:
NZ20975876

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Sunniside Local History Society, no date, Front Street, Sunniside, www.sunnisidelocalhistorysociety.co.uk/frontst.html