Tyne and Wear HER(6320): Elswick, Elswick Road, Presbyterian Church - Details
6320
Newcastle
Elswick, Elswick Road, Presbyterian Church
Elswick
NZ26SW
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Nonconformist Chapel
Presbyterian Chapel
Early Modern
C19
Demolished Building
Shown on 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map. Congregation from John Knox, Clayton Street West. Built 1896 for the congregation from Clayton Street West, who were seeking larger premises. The church was in use until 1953, it later became a Boys Brigade Centre, then Factory Project House. Demolished 1983. A 1900 photograph of the church shows it terraced into the slope of the ground so that it is below the level of Elswick Road.
2318
6382
NZ23186382
2nd edition Ordnance Survey map; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle and North Tyneside, a survey; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2013, Bristol Terrace, Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Archaeological Assessment