Monkwearmouth, Dundas Street, Thompson Memorial Hall

HER Number:
16653

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Monkwearmouth, Dundas Street, Thompson Memorial Hall

Place:
Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Nonconformist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
United Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Thompson Memorial Hall (United Methodist Free Church). Built 1906 in use until 1980. Designed by G F Brown.‘Red brick with stone dressings in Edwardian neo-Classical, with iron-braced roof. Interior theatre-like, with tip-up seats, enormous rostrum and ornate gallery front, approximating to Methodist Central Hall plan. Shipbuilders T R Bulmer and J L Thompson were benefactors. (C&M 1984). Recently completely rebuilt. Now Ture Jesus Church.

Easting:
3983

Northing:
5780

Grid Reference:
NZ39835780

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; Corfe, T and Milburn, G., 1984, Buildings and Beliefs, An Architectural Guide to Places of Worship in the Borough of Sunderland. Wearside Historic Churches Group