South Shields, Frederick Street, Friends Meeting House

HER Number:
17643

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Frederick Street, Friends Meeting House

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Nonconformist Meeting House

Site Type: Specific:
Friends Meeting House

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The Society of Friends (Quakers) have met on several occasions in South Shields, but none of their meeting houses can be accurately located. There was a meeting in the house of Robert Linton from 1661 until 1696. In Whellans’ Directory for 1894 a meeting house in Frederick Street is mentioned, but is not shown on OS maps. Then in 1900 a house in Wellington Terrace (? NZ 36086784) to which a large new meeting room was added in 1907; it was sold in 1958.

Easting:
36107

Northing:
66151

Grid Reference:
NZ3610766151

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in South Shields; Whellan, 1894, Directory of County Durham