Sunderland Chester Road Primitive Methodist chapel

The 1886 Primitive Methodist magazine tells us about the laying of memorial stones for a new school-chapel in Chester Road.  It was in part of what it calls the Old Institute grounds.  I take this to mean the Sunderland Primitive Methodist Theological Institute which had been responsible for the training of itinerant Primitive Methodist ministers. The training responsibilities of the Institute had been transferred to the newly built Hartley College in Manchester in 1883. The May 1887 magazine tells us the chapel had been opened

When the society took over the Old Institute the membership was 18; by 1886 it was over 100.

What happened to the chapel? The Institution was eventually sold to become a Catholic School.

Reference

Primitive Methodist magazine December 1886 page 761

Primitive Methodist magazine May 1887 page 316