Penshaw, Model Terrace, Wesleyan Chapel

HER Number:
16888

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Penshaw, Model Terrace, Wesleyan Chapel

Place:
Penshaw

Map Sheet:
NZ35SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Nonconformist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Model Terrace (formerly Double Row). C18 – 1980s. Whellan 1856 states this was the oldest Wesleyan Chapel in the neighbourhood, where John Wesley is said to have preached, although the 1940 circuit list gives New Penshaw Chapel as Primitive Methodist.

Easting:
3217

Northing:
5365

Grid Reference:
NZ32175365

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; First Edition Ordnance Survey, 1862; Whellan, 1856, History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham, p639; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, Penshaw: Not just a monument - Historic Village Atlas