Low Fell, Durham Road, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church

HER Number:
8258

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Low Fell, Durham Road, Wesley Memorial Methodist Church

Place:
Low Fell

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Methodist Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
1882 snecked tooled sandstone with Welsh slate roofs. Symmetrical west front has tall central gabled bay and flanking smaller bays with octagonal attics above eaves which are broken by lancets under trefoils. Pointed, banded roofs. Central recess has rose window over three lancets; and flanking single lancets. Three tiny stepped lancets in gable peak. Two pointed arched doorways. A pleasing and individual adaptation of early Gothic. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2581

Northing:
6007

Grid Reference:
NZ25816007

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 10/70; Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels of Gateshead