Gateshead, Melbourne Street, Presbyterian Chapel

HER Number:
7871

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Gateshead, Melbourne Street, Presbyterian Chapel

Place:
Gateshead

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Nonconformist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Presbyterian Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
At the top of Melbourne Street (now junction of Ellison Street and West Street). Originally built by a congregation of Independents in 1836, the chapel was transferred to the Presbyterians. In 1895 it became Robert Kelly & Co. printing establishment.

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; CgMs Consulting, 2010, Tesco Store and Trinity Square, Ellison St, Gateshead - Archaeological Assessment