Low fell, Durham Road, No. 660, Chowdene Community Church

HER Number:
7460

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Low fell, Durham Road, No. 660, Chowdene Community Church

Place:
Low Fell

Map Sheet:
NZ25NE

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:
Chowdene Chapel was built in 1880 and opened in 1881 to house a Primitive Methodist congregation who had been renting the former New Connexion Bethany Chapel. It cost £900 and seated 200; in 1925 structural problems affecting the north wall prompted major works; the congregation moved to Wesley Memorial Church on the opposite side of the road in 1965 and the building was sold to the Brethren, with whom it remains in use (Chowdene Community Church). Over one round-headed window is a stone plaque 'ROBERT ARMSTRONG MEMORIAL 1901'. LOCAL LIST

Easting:
2583

Northing:
5975

Grid Reference:
NZ25835975

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Gateshead Council Local List Fact Sheet X20/LL/080; Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels of Gateshead