Bensham, Bensham Road, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

HER Number:
17718

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Bensham, Bensham Road, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

Place:
Bensham

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
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.

Easting:
2482

Northing:
6241

Grid Reference:
NZ24826241

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
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