Stephenson Street, Baptist Chapel/Central Hall
Stephenson Street, Baptist Chapel/Central Hall
HER Number
4573
District
N Tyneside
Site Name
Stephenson Street, Baptist Chapel/Central Hall
Place
North Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Baptist Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
Baptist Chapel in Stephenson's Street. Shown on Wood's map of 1827. Built as an assembly room. In use as a Baptist Chapel from 1799 to 1866, then became a Temperance Hall and, after alterations, Central Hall in 1888.
Easting
435840
Northing
568340
Grid Reference
NZ435840568340
Sources
<< HER 4573 >> J. Woods, 1826, Plan of the Towns of North Shields and Tynemouth; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle & North Tyneside; Eric Hollerton, 1997, The Archive Photographs Series - North Shields