Catalogue description Dock Street Methodist Church, Sunderland

This record is held by Tyne and Wear Archives

Details of C.SU18
Reference: C.SU18
Title: Dock Street Methodist Church, Sunderland
Date: 1857-1968
Related material:

For an album relating to the memorial hall at Dock Street see C.SU35/12
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Dock Street Methodist Church, Sunderland
Physical description: 13 series + 20 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accessions 887 (part), 1025 (part), 1176 (part), 2551 (part)
Subjects:
  • Sunderland, County Durham
  • Religion
Administrative / biographical background:

Church began in 1850 when certain members of Whitburn Street Wesleyan Methodist Church (C.SU39) were expelled for their views on Conference decisions. They met initially in the Baptist Chapel, Hallgarth Square, and in 1851 built a temporary Wesleyan church in Dock Street, which eventually became Wesleyan Reform, which in 1857 merged with the Wesleyan Association to form the United Methodist Free Churches. In 1867 a large church was built in Dock Street, and from 1907 this was United Methodist. Church closed in 1966. Within Dock Street United Methodist Circuit (MC.SU10) till 1933, and then Sunderland Northern Circuit (MC.SU1).
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