South Shields, Cornwallis Street, Primitive Methodist Church

HER Number:
4595

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Cornwallis Street, Primitive Methodist Church

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Primitive Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
The first Primitive Methodist Church building in South Shields opened in 1823 in Cornwallis Street, seating 900 and built at a cost of £1,600; it was rebuilt in 1865. The church was built on glebe land and known as ‘The Glebe’, the name being transferred to the new church which replaced it in 1890. Only shown on the 1827 Wood map and the 1st edition Ordnance Survey,

Easting:
3616

Northing:
6701

Grid Reference:
NZ36166701

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4595 >>J. Woods, 1826, Plan of the Towns of North Shields and Tynemouth; Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels of South Shields