Low Fell, Church Road, Wesleyan Meeting House

HER Number:
17709

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Low Fell, Church Road, Wesleyan Meeting House

Place:
Low Fell

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:
C18

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building?

Description:
The old meeting house here (NZ 2603 6003) is said to have been the first Wesleyan building on County Durham, built in 1754. On the photograph below the taller block at the far (east) end of the row appears to be the meeting house (the road was formerly ‘Meeting House Lane’. In 1898 it was replaced by the present ‘Wesley Manse’ but map evidence shows that this stands on exactly the same footprint, slightly skew to the road, as the meeting house. So does the building survive, perhaps partly refaced?

Easting:
2603

Northing:
6003

Grid Reference:
NZ26036003

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in Gateshead; http://www.gateshead-history.com/low-fell.html