Catalogue of Sites, nos 1-17

1. Auckland Park - Primitive Methodist chapel built in 1878 for 200 worshippers, at a cost of £200 (19).

2. Bearpark - Church hall, known as the 'mission room', built in 1895, but removed in 1958 (20).

3. Bewicke Main - Rectangular corrugated iron Primitive Methodist chapel, with a small gabled porch. The long walls were pierced by four pointed windows, with a fifth in a brick end section. Similar window were found on either side of the porch, with one above it. The roof was of corrugated iron, extending over the brick end. At the gable there was a barge board with scalloped edge and fretted features. In the roof were two small triangular dormer-like features (cf. no.20). At the gables there was a steeple, and a chimney. The chapel was at the bottom end of High Row, and was opened in 1901 (21). The land was bought from the coal company for 1/-, like that for the institute (no.4) (22). The last service was in 1938.

4. Bewicke Main - Roughly T-shaped institute, with a side porch, near the Primitive Methodist church (no.3). The structure was raised and levelled on a brick footing, and was lit by tall rectangular windows with hood mouldings. The gables had plain barge boards, with a collar and king post timbering extending above the ridge as a turned point. The ridge itself was lined with crockets. Opened in 1901 (23). The colliery closed in 1932, and the village was demolished.

5. Binchester - Anglican chapel of ease of St Barnabas, built in 1876-7 for 195 worshippers, at a cost of £500. The curate lived at Byers Green. The building apparently had an iron frame (24), and a photograph taken around the 1880s shows a S. gabled porch, and an outshut (25). Paired transomed lancet windows pierced the long wall. Demolished in 1983.

6. Bishop Auckland - The iron Baptist chapel in Waldron Street was built in 1876 for 300 worshippers. The cost was £950 (26). The Baptists had previously met in a school.

7. Bowburn - A Primitive Methodist chapel built in 1908 (27).

8. Brandon - St Patrick's school chapel was built in 1878, and was capable of seating 350 worshippers. It also accommodated children from the village, Browney Colliery, Littleburn, Langley Moor, and Meadowfield (28). The surfaces of the walls, and particularly the gables, were divided up by external timbering. The building was entered by a gable porch with a side door, and the interior was lit by a series of large vertically set rectangular windows, each with 16 lights.

9. Brandon - Miners' union lodge hall, built in 1891 at West Street, for £300 (29). The building was a long rectangle, with a gabled porch, its side door reached by steps. The walls were raised and levelled, and pierced by large rectangular 4-light windows. The roofs of the main room and porch extended beyond the gables. The main room, with a platform at one end, could seat 300.

10. Broompark - Small iron Wesleyan church of 1882, seating 150 (30).

11. Byermoor - Iron church missioned from St Cuthbert's, Marley Hill (1877). Listed in commercial directory of 1914, but not in 1894 (31).

12. Catchgate - United Methodist Free church near Annfield Plain (32). Listed in 1894, but not in 1890.

13. Cassop - Mixed and infant school, built in 1875. Average attendance 238 (33).

14. Chilton - Chapel of ease and Sunday school, missioned from Ferryhill. Built in 1877 and apparently enlarged in 1913 (34).

15. Cockfield - A Congregational chapel, seating about 160, was built in 1860, but became a Sunday school following the erection of a new church in 1900 (35).

16. Consett - Iron Baptist chapel built in Front Street in 1873 (36). Replaced by a brick church in 1905.

17. Craghead - Iron church built in 1900 for 200. Later used as a church hall after the building of St Thomas' church in 1911 (37).

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