Baring Street, People's Mission

HER Number

17704

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Baring Street, People's Mission

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

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

The Sunday School was built first and is shown on the 2nd edition OS map of the 1890s. The Wesleyan Methodist Church was erected to the south in 1903. A large Gothic building with a corner tower. It is now the People's Mission.

Easting

436450

Northing

567780

Grid Reference

NZ436450567780

Sources

Peter Ryder, 2017, Nonconformist Chapels in South Tyneside