North Shields, Howard Street, United Free Methodist Church

HER Number:
7286

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
North Shields, Howard Street, United Free Methodist Church

Place:
North Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
United Methodist Free Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Nonconformist church, now Borough offices. 1856-57 by Benjamin Green for United Free Methodists. Sandstone ashlar front, rubble left return, Welsh slate roof. Two storeys. Three arched panels contain double doors under fanlights. Sash windows. The Free Methodist Church was formed in North Shields in 1850 by the Wesleyan Association, the Protestant Methodists and Armenian Methodists. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
35677

Northing:
68422

Grid Reference:
NZ3567768422

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 14/85; H.E. Craster, 1907, History of Northumberland, Vol VIII, p 376; N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England - Northumberland, page 527; Peter F Ryder, 2012, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses in Newcastle & North Tyneside