Tyne and Wear HER(17733): Gateshead, Melbourne Street, Bethesda Chapel - Details
17733
Gateshead
Gateshead, Melbourne Street, Bethesda Chapel
Gateshead
NZ26SE
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Methodist Chapel
Methodist New Connexion Chapel
Early Modern
C19
Demolished Building
Bethesda Chapel (New Connexion) on Melbourne Street, built in 1835 at a cost of £3,800 and could officially seat 1200, although when William Booth was a successful evangelist here in 1859-61 (prior to his leaving Methodism to found the Salvation Army) it is recorded that over 2,000 crammed in to hear him. A plain brick building, it was replaced in 1896 by the Whitehall Road Methodist Church, and became a printing works, finally being demolished in 1964; its site is now under a dual carriageway.
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6334
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Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in Gateshead