Tyne and Wear HER(7286): North Shields, Howard Street, United Free Methodist Church - Details
7286
N Tyneside
North Shields, Howard Street, United Free Methodist Church
North Shields
NZ36NE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Methodist Chapel
United Methodist Free Chapel
Early Modern
C19
Extant Building
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
35677
68422
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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