Close Gate, Meeting House

HER Number

15803

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Close Gate, Meeting House

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Nonconformist Meeting House

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Stuart 1603 to 1714

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Dr Richard Gilpin was the first minister at the New Meeting, Close Gate. In 1683 the congregation who used to meet in the house of William Durant (died in 1681) in Pilgrim Street joined that of Gilpin.

Easting

424870

Northing

563610

Grid Reference

NZ424870563610

Sources

Unitarians at Ellison Place, Church Folder, p 13