Tyne and Wear HER(17718): Bensham, Bensham Road, Wesleyan Methodist Chapel - Details
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.
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6241
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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