West Cramlington Primitive Methodist chapel
Alexandra Park, Cramlington NE23
The Primitive Methodist Magazine for February 1851 includes a description by Thomas Smith of the opening of the Primitive Methodist chapel at West Cramlington.
West Cramlington was a cluster of houses around a colliery to the east of Cramlington itself. The Ordnance Survey map 1858-80 series shows both Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels there. The Prims had previously met in a colliery building, then in a small upstairs room – so small the “poor children were parboiled in it”. In 1850 the colliery owner rented a site to the society cheaply and society members built the chapel themselves after work. It cost £131, and at the time of opening, all but £40 had been raised.
The chapel is still there on 1919-1922 maps, but has disappeared (along with all the colliery houses) by 1962.
Reference
Primitive Methodist Magazine February 1851 p114
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Some background to the people who set up this chapel.
When Christopher Gregory arrived at West Cramlington from the Allotment in 1838, he found no society there, so he opened his house for worship. From that initial step grew a Church which has had a far-reaching influence .
A Chapel was built in 1850, after a powerful revival — and it was not the first — and soul-saving went on in the new sanctuary .
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