South Shields Methodist New Connexion chapel

West Holborn, Johnson's Hill

West Holborn cahpel, Johnson's Hill South Shields as shown on Ordnance Survey large scale town plan 1:528 South Shield Sheet 42 (1857)

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South Shields, South Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, North East, England, NE33 1NF, United Kingdom

South Shields Methodist New Connexion chapel was built in 1814 to replace a chapel built in 1785. In 1851 it provided 100 free and 350 other sittings

Source: The Religious Census of 1851 Northumberland and County Durham, Ed Alan Munden, p.387 (TNA HO129.550.14c)

Another return in 1851 states that

West Holborn Methodist New Connexion chapel was built in 1814 on the site of a former Lady Huntington’s Connexion chapel. In 1851 it provided 100 free and 400 other sittings. The chapel was closed after the New Zion Chapel opened in 1859

Source: The Religious Census of 1851 Northumberland and County Durham, Ed Alan Munden, p.386 (TNA HO129.550.28a)

Author

G.W. Oxley

Keywords

1851 Religious census (303)

Methodist New Connexion (329)

Page added

10/02/2026

Comments about this page

I have added an image of the chapel as surveyed in 1855. The Ordnance Survey did not always appreciate the finer points of Methodism. There are no references to this chapel in Wesleyan sources.
By Philip Thornborow (10/02/2026)