Gateshead Whitehall Road Primitive Methodist chapel

Following strong mission work, “in 1900 a few friends from the Bank Street School Chapel and a few more from Prince Consort Road joined together, bought a commanding site in Whitehall Road, an entirely new district, erected an iron chapel, and formed what is a very vigorous and increasing society.”

The 1905 Primitive Methodist magazine reports that plans for a  a new church building had been completed.  It would cost £2,500, of which they would raise £1,000 having liquidated the current debt.

It looks like it took them a bit longer: there are two Methodist chapels shown on the 1939 Ordnance Survey map on Whitehall Road – a large one on the corner of Coatsworth Road, still active as Whitehall Road Methodist church,  and a smaller one on the corner of Rawling Road.  This one, with “Primitive Methodist” carved in the stonework, carries the date 1925 and in 2018 was in use as a nursery.

Reference

Primitive Methodist magazine 1905 page 414