Christon Bank Primitive Methodist Church Northumberland
The Church was built or opened in 1891 and is still open for worship in 2013
1891 Christon Bank Primitive Methodist Church as it was in 1996
Keith Guyler 1996
The Christon Bank P M building is called ‘Church’ instead of Chapel which is unusual in Primitive Methodist circles.
It is built yards away from the East Coast Main Line railway. It must have been very noisy when trains passed by or when work was going on in the goods sidings. Today with modern fast trains the noise factor must be greatly reduced for the worshippers
Photos taken September 2013
OS map ref: 75:NU212231
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Christon Bank is still open. Now part of Lindisfarne Methodist Church.
Seems to have closed shortly after 2016.
In 1891, station master Theophilus Moor and James Young teamed up and approached MP for Berwick, Sir Edward Grey, asking for some land to build a chapel.
Sir Edward granted the land to the community for free and on August 3 1891, the first stone was laid in a special ceremony.
Although the land itself was free, the actual cost of the buildings, including furnishings, was £709, seven shillings and four pence.
© CC BY Article in the Newcastle Chronicle Aug 2016
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