Sunniside, Elm Street West, No. 8, Spiritualist Church

HER Number:
16383

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Sunniside, Elm Street West, No. 8, Spiritualist Church

Place:
Sunniside

Map Sheet:
NZ25NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Nonconformist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Spiritualist Church

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Elm Street West was built by Harry Kindred in 1925. Joseph and Hannah Bell moved into No. 8 'Belmont'. They built a Spiritualist Church with a timber frame and corrugated metal sheeting next to the house. Prior to this, the National Spiritualists held meetings in James Bell's house in Cuthbert Street, Marley Hill. Locals called the metal church 'Spuggies Hall'. In the 1950s Cuthy Bell, a winderman at Marley Hill Colliery and his wife Emma lived at No. 8. In the late 1960s the church was damaged by vandals and was dismantled.

Easting:
2090

Northing:
5880

Grid Reference:
NZ20905880

Lats/Lons:

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