Low Moorsley, Front St, Wesleyan Chapel

HER Number:
16906

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Low Moorsley, Front St, Wesleyan Chapel

Place:
Moorsley

Map Sheet:
NZ34NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Western chapel (Wesleyan). 1858 (dated) – 1960s? Whellan refers to chapel erected in 1844 by North Hetton Coal Co. ‘the lower part is used as a school’, presumably a previous building?. Now boat store; stone with ashlar detailing.

Easting:
3406

Northing:
4616

Grid Reference:
NZ34064616

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; Whellan, 1862, History, Topography, and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham p773; Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas