Tyne and Wear HER(17647): South Shields, Mile End Road, Low Meeting House - Details
17647
S Tyneside
South Shields, Mile End Road, Low Meeting House
South Shields
NZ36NE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Nonconformist Chapel
Presbyterian Chapel
Post Medieval
C18
Documentary Evidence
The first Presbyterian church to be built in South Shields was at the head of Mile End Road and Long Bank in 1718. This was called the Low Meeting House. In 1778 there was a split in the congregation at the Low Meeting House following a dispute concerning who should be appointed minister. The 1827 Woods map shows a structure approximately in the above position labelled ‘Scotch Chapel Freehold’ which is probably this meeting house; the 1890s 10ft:1 mile town plan shows ‘Chapel Stairs’ immediately below this position.
The splinter group built a church in Heugh Street in 1789 and eventually became the Mile End Road Presbyterian Church (HER 17649).
3607
6791
NZ36076791
Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in South Tyneside; Wood, 1827, map of South Shields