Sunderland, Tatham Street, Bethesda Free Church

HER Number:
4716

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Tatham Street, Bethesda Free Church

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Nonconformist Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
The Bethesda Free Chapel dates from 1844-5, with side galleries added in 1852. It was built for A.A. Rees and carries the date 1844 in the pediment. It is 2 stories high and was constructed in Garden wall bond brick and limestone rubble returns, with a rendered rear, ashlar sandstone plinth and painted ashlar dressings. The roof is of Welsh slate. Inside there is a font and a memorial to Arthur Augustus Rees, d.1884. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
4008

Northing:
5677

Grid Reference:
NZ40085677

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4716 >> Buildings Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/14/217; North East War Memorials Project (www.newmp.org.uk) S140.111; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estate.