Bensham, Rawling Road, Trinity Primitive Methodist Church

HER Number:
17731

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Bensham, Rawling Road, Trinity Primitive Methodist Church

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Primitive Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Opened as a Primitive Methodist Church in 1900 and known variously as Trinity, Rawling Road and Whitehall Road West Methodist Church. The original building lay on the north of the present structure and later formed a church hall; it has now been replaced by other structures. The present church of bright orange brick with ashlar dressings is dated ‘1925’; it closed in 1994. The building is now a surgery.

Easting:
2484

Northing:
6182

Grid Reference:
NZ24846182

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in Gateshead