Hetton-le-Hole, Railway Street, Primitive Methodist Church

HER Number:
7010

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Hetton-le-Hole, Railway Street, Primitive Methodist Church

Place:
Hetton-le-Hole

Map Sheet:
NZ34NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Primitive Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Chapel, 1858 on plaque in central gable. Coursed squared sandstone front with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings. Other walls limestone rubble. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys and basement. Round-arched windows under a wide round relieving arch. Flights of steps with iron handrails to double doors with fanlights. Sash windows. Said to incorporate stone sleeper blocks from George Stephenson’s Hetton Colliery Railway and to have been built by the miners of Hetton Colliery. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3539

Northing:
4757

Grid Reference:
NZ35394757

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 8/16; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; Hetton Local & Natural History Society, 2015, The Hetton Village Atlas