Gateshead, Melbourne Street, Bethesda Chapel

HER Number:
7870

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Melbourne Street, Bethesda Chapel

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Methodist New Connexion Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Belonged to the Methodist New Connexion. Opened in 1836. General Booth, founder of the Salvation Army was given his first permanent minister's post here. Later the printing works of Howe Brothers. Demolished in 1964.

Easting:
255

Northing:
633

Grid Reference:
NZ255633

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
D. Lumley, 1932, The Story of Gateshead Town - From the earliest age to the mid Victorian, p 128; I.C. Carlton, 1974, A Short History of Gateshead, pp 33-34