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17718


Gateshead


Bensham, Bensham Road, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel


Bensham


NZ26SW


Religious Ritual and Funerary


Methodist Chapel


Wesleyan Methodist Chapel


Early Modern


C19


Demolished Building


A large chapel built in what was described as a Greco-Italian style, designed by the son of a former pastor Philip Haswell. Opened in 1872 (two years after a Sunday School) at a cost of nearly £10,000, and could seat 900. It closed in 1962 and was demolished in early 1967. Site now occupied by Tyne View Nursing Home.


2482


6241


NZ24826241



Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in Gateshead; http://www.gatesheadhistory.com/wesleyan-methodist-church.html; Gateshead Library, photograph of interior, 1966, Reference Number: GL010975 and colour-tinted photograph of exterior, 1908, Reference Number: GL010964

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