High Street, Wesleyan Meeting House
High Street, Wesleyan Meeting House
HER Number
5646
District
Gateshead
Site Name
High Street, Wesleyan Meeting House
Place
Gateshead
Map Sheet
NZ26SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Nonconformist Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Documentary Evidence
Description
The Wesleyans had a meeting house in High Street (behind where Woolworths now stands). The Wesleyan chapel was built in 1815 to accommodate 670 people, with gardens in front. Since its desertion it was used as a music hall and theatre. It was burnt out twice. On one occasion 14 lives were lost.
Easting
425000
Northing
563000
Grid Reference
NZ425000563000
Sources
<< HER 5646 >> E. MacKenzie, 1827, A Descriptive and Historical Account of the Town and Country of Newcastle, Vol 1, p 755; D. Lumley, 1932, The Story of Gateshead Town, p 127-128