Since 1850 the Wesleyan Methodist Association had been using Mr Bell’s schoolroom as a preaching place. In 1851 It seated 160 and there was standing room for 40. It was planned to build a chapel seating 400
Source: The Religious Census of 1851 Northumberland and County Durham, Ed Alan Munden, p.418 (TNA HO129.541.73)
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