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Latitude: 54.7481 / 54°44'53"N
Longitude: -2.2175 / 2°13'3"W
OS Eastings: 386094
OS Northings: 539258
OS Grid: NY860392
Mapcode National: GBR DFYJ.QQ
Mapcode Global: WHB38.XX6F
Plus Code: 9C6VPQXJ+6X
Entry Name: Wearhead Methodist Chapel
Listing Date: 5 June 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1230042
English Heritage Legacy ID: 404881
ID on this website: 101230042
Location: Wearhead, County Durham, DL13
County: County Durham
Civil Parish: Stanhope
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): County Durham
Church of England Parish: Heatherycleugh
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Chapel
STANHOPE A689(North side)
NY 83 NE
Wearhead
18/125 Wearhead Methodist
Chapel
II
Primitive Methodist Chapel. 1826. Coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar
dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable coping. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central
renewed door under round arch with voussoirs on impost blocks; flanking round-
headed windows and upper segmental-headed windows have arches with voussoirs;
thin projecting stone sills; renewed glazing. Low-pitched roof has left end
coping and chimney. Interior: boarded above boarded dado except for plastered
ritual west wall. Panelled ceiling, diagonally boarded, with carved corner
brackets in each panel, and ceiling roses around ventilators. Gallery around
3 sides, supported on tapered cast iron columns; ornate bracketed cast iron
balustrade. Corbelled keyed east organ arch. Panelled central pulpit at east
end flanked by panelled screen. Communion rail on cord-twist balusters with
ivy-leaf brackets. Memorials include tablets to members of Humble and Peart
families, transferred from Lanehead chapel (q.v.), to Harrison and Featherstone
families, to members of the congregation who entered the Primitive Methodist
Ministry between 1826 and 1926, and to those who died in the First World War.
Source: P.A.G. Clack and K.E. Pattinson, Weardale Chapels, Durham 1978.
Listing NGR: NY8609439258
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