Tyne and Wear HER(17644): South Shields, Wallis Street, Congregational Church - Details
17644
S Tyneside
South Shields, Wallis Street, Congregational Church
South Shields
NZ36NE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Nonconformist Chapel
Congregational Chapel
Early Modern
C19
Demolished Building
A church only shown on the 1st edition OS map,; built in 1824. In 1882 it became the Gospel Temperance Hall (surviving programmes for events here showed it functioned in this role until at least1916). Later it became the King’s Picture House, and Alexandra Theatre which closed in 1940, after which it was used as a warehouse until demolished in 1960.
3621
6707
NZ36216707
Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in South Tyneside; http://www.southtynesideimages.org.uk