Trinity Methodist Chapel (Allendale)
Trinity Methodist Chapel, Allendale. Photo by Peter Ryder.
Trinity Methodist Church, Shield Street (west side). Grade II listed building. Dated 1875 on foundation stones. Interior has many contemporary fittings and a gallery with shutters. (1)
Wesleyan chapel. Built 1875-7. (2)
A fairly grand chapel, the third on the site, in a rather Italianate style. Gable end to street is of squared stone with ashlar dressings; chamfered plinth and first floor band. Central, slightly-projecting bay with moulded cornice contains a round-arched doorway with Tuscan pilasters and cornice and three stepped lights above. On either side of bay windows to ground and upper floors. All windows are round-arched margined sashes with late 19th century coloured glazing, with sill on corbels. Dated foundation stones below lower windows. Coped gable with obelisk finial. The side elevation (south) is of coursed rubble with four round-headed windows (raised ashlar dressings to arches only). To the right, a recent window and doorway with raised stone surround (early 19th century work reused?) has been converted into a window. The west end is similar, with two round-arched windows and a small light in the gable. The north side is blank.
Interior: remodelled in 1989. The western part is now subdivided by a folding screen. There is a gallery, now partitioned off, over the eastern part.
The original chapel was founded in 1760. A photograph of the second chapel, of 1839, shows a building with a hip-ended roof, similarly set end-on to the street. There was a central doorway flanked by 16-pane sash windows to ground and upper floors, all the openingsapparently having stone surrounds. As now, there was a small railed forecourt.
The building is in good condition, having been remodelled in1989. The interior is modern and, although the pulpit has been reused, there are no other fittings of interest. It is still in use as a chapel. (4)
Additional reference (5)
Wesleyan chapel. Built 1875-7. (2)
A fairly grand chapel, the third on the site, in a rather Italianate style. Gable end to street is of squared stone with ashlar dressings; chamfered plinth and first floor band. Central, slightly-projecting bay with moulded cornice contains a round-arched doorway with Tuscan pilasters and cornice and three stepped lights above. On either side of bay windows to ground and upper floors. All windows are round-arched margined sashes with late 19th century coloured glazing, with sill on corbels. Dated foundation stones below lower windows. Coped gable with obelisk finial. The side elevation (south) is of coursed rubble with four round-headed windows (raised ashlar dressings to arches only). To the right, a recent window and doorway with raised stone surround (early 19th century work reused?) has been converted into a window. The west end is similar, with two round-arched windows and a small light in the gable. The north side is blank.
Interior: remodelled in 1989. The western part is now subdivided by a folding screen. There is a gallery, now partitioned off, over the eastern part.
The original chapel was founded in 1760. A photograph of the second chapel, of 1839, shows a building with a hip-ended roof, similarly set end-on to the street. There was a central doorway flanked by 16-pane sash windows to ground and upper floors, all the openingsapparently having stone surrounds. As now, there was a small railed forecourt.
The building is in good condition, having been remodelled in1989. The interior is modern and, although the pulpit has been reused, there are no other fittings of interest. It is still in use as a chapel. (4)
Additional reference (5)
N7322
FIELD OBSERVATION, Nonconformist Chapels and Meeting Houses within the Northumberland Section of the Northern Pennine A.O.N.B. 1998
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