Temple Town, Wesleyan Chapel

Temple Town, Wesleyan Chapel

HER Number
17662
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Temple Town, Wesleyan Chapel
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Description
Templetown Wesleyan Chapel is recorded as having been built in 1826 and closing in 1882. A 1904 photograph shows it in use by Newton & Nicholson (J.S. Nicholson Sole Proprietor) Tyne Dock Corrugated Metallic Packing Works. Single storey with rectangular windows. A corrugated packing works is shown on the OS third edition of 1919.
This building was added to the South Tyneside local list in 2023. The additional local list description reads:
'Built ca. 1826, used until 1880s and then converted for industrial use. Currently a dance school. Parishioners used to be made up of employees from the chemical works nearby. Much anecdotal evidence to suggest the chemical works supported the chapel, as the workers used to go there instead of going out drinking. This made them 'better workers' despite the workers dying and being poisoned by their work in the chemical works.'
Easting
435546
Northing
565614
Grid Reference
NZ435546565614
Sources
Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in South Tyneside; http://www.southtynesidehistory.co.uk/archive/architecture/places-of-worship/625639;
https://www.southtyneside.gov.uk/article/18506/Local-List-A-to-Z#TempleTown