Tyne and Wear HER(17663): Blaydon, Bridge Street, No. 11, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel - Details
17663
Gateshead
Blaydon, Bridge Street, No. 11, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Blaydon
NZ16SE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Nonconformist Chapel
Methodist Chapel
Early Modern
C19
Documentary Evidence
The first Methodist preaching place in Blaydon was a house at No. 11 Bridge Street, High Blaydon. It was owned by William and Mary Hawdon and their initials 'W.H.M' and the 1737 were inscribed on a stone above the door. The house comprised of a kitchen and a room above, which was accessed via a ladder and trapdoor. When the congregation became too large for the kitchen, the upper room was also used and the preacher stood on a stool with his head through the trapdoor, so he could preach to both rooms.
There was a Wesleyan Methodist Society in Blaydon in 1829.
The congregation later moved to a larger room at 'Horsecrofts' and met there until 1856. Then they built a chapel in Wesley Place. This chapel remained in use until 1893 when a new Methodist Church was opened on the north side of Shibdon Road (HER 6018).
18130
63536
NZ1813063536
Susan Lynn, 7 April 2017, St. John's Wesleyan Methodist Church, Blaydon, County Durham https://www.mywesleyanmethodists.org.uk/content/chapels/county-durham/blaydon_st_johns_wesleyan_methodist_church; Tyne and Wear Archives, church records 1887-1954; The History of Blaydon (TWAS)