Catalogue description Cleadon Methodist Church

This record is held by Tyne and Wear Archives

Details of C.CL1
Reference: C.CL1
Title: Cleadon Methodist Church
Date: 1899-1999
Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Cleadon Methodist Church

Physical description: 1 series + 4 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Acc 1025 (part) and 3590

Subjects:
  • Cleadon, County Durham
  • Cleadon, Tyne and Wear
  • Cleadon, South Tyneside
  • Religion
Administrative / biographical background:

Wesleyan Methodist services were first held in Cleadon Village in the 1780s by John Burdon in his farm cottage. However, the members hoped for a 'proper' church and in 1898 Whitburn Methodist Church appointed 13 trustees to supervise the provision of a new church in Cleadon. The foundation stone was laid at the Sunderland Road site on 3 May 1899 by Dr John Burdon, grandson of the above John Burdon and later in the year the church opened. It was part of the Sunderland St John Wesleyan Circuit (MC.Su2), later Sunderland North Circuit (MC.Su1)

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