Cowpen Methodist New Connexion Chapel was built in 1818. In 1851 it provided 150 free and 400 other sittings and standing room for 100. It closed in 1866 when a new chapel opened in Waterloo Road
The religious census of 1851 Northumberland and Durham, edited by Alan Munden, The Surtees Society 2012 p.195 (The National Archives HO127.553.77)
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The 1851 returns state that this building was in the parish of Cowpen. Since then it has become part of Blyth. There is a description of the life of this chapel in the account of the opening of Blyth Zion Methodist New Connexion church
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