South Shields, Wallis Street, Congregational Church

HER Number:
17644

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Wallis Street, Congregational Church

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Nonconformist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Congregational Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
A church only shown on the 1st edition OS map,; built in 1824. In 1882 it became the Gospel Temperance Hall (surviving programmes for events here showed it functioned in this role until at least1916). Later it became the King’s Picture House, and Alexandra Theatre which closed in 1940, after which it was used as a warehouse until demolished in 1960.

Easting:
3621

Northing:
6707

Grid Reference:
NZ36216707

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in South Tyneside; http://www.southtynesideimages.org.uk