Catalogue description Mile End Road Presbyterian Church, South Shields (Formerly Heugh Street)

This record is held by Tyne and Wear Archives

Details of C.SS3
Reference: C.SS3
Title: Mile End Road Presbyterian Church, South Shields (Formerly Heugh Street)
Date: 1758-1942
Related material:

For records of St John's Presbyterian Church, see C.SS6.

Held by: Tyne and Wear Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Mile End Road Presbyterian Church, South Shields

Physical description: 2 series + 10 files
Immediate source of acquisition:

Accession 2015 (part)

Subjects:
  • South Shields, County Durham
  • Religion
Administrative / biographical background:

The first regular Presbyterian Church in South Shields was built at the head of Mile End Road and Long Bank in 1718. In a trust deed of 1728 this was called the Low Meeting House. In 1778 there was a split in the congregation at the Low Meeting House following a dispute concerning who should be appointed Minister.

 

The splinter group built a separate church in Heugh Street in 1789. In 1858 this congregation moved to a new church in Mile End Road. Mile End Road Presbyterian Church and St John's Presbyterian Church (the successor of the Low Meeting House) united in 1942.

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