Catalogue of sites, nos 18-34

18. Crawcrook - Iron mission chapel built in 1893, and served from Greenside (38).

19. Dunstan - Iron Catholic church built in 1905 at a cost of £1,000? Replacing the church of St Philip Neri, built in 1883 (39).

20. East Hedleyhope - Wesleyan Methodist chapel built in 1892 on the W. side of the village. It is a rectangular building, aligned E-W. with a small porch. There are foundation stones, one laid by William Hanson J.P. of Middlesbrough, the other by T. Moffat in memory of Henry Shield. The long walls are lit by three tall rectangular windows with hood mouldings, and in the W. wall there are similar windows either side of the porch, and one above it. In the roof are two small triangular dormer-like features. Internally divided into three bays by two principal rafter trusses with scissor bracing. Plaque on W. end of N. wall records a reredos erected in memory of villagers killed in the Great War. In 1968 the chapel membership was seven, and it was sold to a local football club (40). It is now used as a garage/workshop.

21. East Hedleyhope - Primitive Methodist chapel, opened by the colliery manager, W.H. Telford, in October 1907 (41), behind Reading Room Row, near the school. It was closed in 1932, and moved to Esh Winning four years later (see no. 28).

22. East Howle - St Columba's mission church, near Cookson's Green Farm, between Ferryhill and Metal Bridge. Created as a mission from Ferryhill in 1901 by Rev. T.L. Lomax to serve the community at East Howle colliery (later demolished as a D-village) (42). The S. wall is pierced by five paired lancets, each with a transom. On the N. side is an added lean-to. At the W. end is the shingle-covered base of a steeple with bell chamber. Crosses originally at each gable apex. Fittings and bell removed after the church became redundant. Some internal fire damage. Since 1963 used for agricultural purposes (43).

23. East Stanley - See Oxhill, no.45.

24. Eldon Lane - New Connexion Methodist chapel built in 1890 for 180 worshippers (44).

25. Eppleton - Church institute, in George Street, built in 1900 and incorporating a reading room and billiard room (45).

26. Esh Winning - The Royalty Theatre was built between 1902 and 1910. It was a broad rectangular building with cement steps up to an elaborate entrance. Internally there was a box office, and two staircases to upper levels supported y metal pillars. Around 1912 it became the Pavilion Cinema, and was burnt down 26.1.1956 (46).

27. Esh Winning - Newhouse club, formerly a Catholic school near Ushaw Moor (see no. 54), but later moved to become a meeting place for Catholic workmen at Esh Winning colliery.

28. Esh Winning - Former Primitive Methodist chapel at East Hedleyhope (see no. 21), moved to Esh Winning in 1936, and used for Labour Party meetings, as well as being a dole office, and a social meeting place. Long rectangular building with two doors in the N. wall. Lean-to on the S. side, and on the E. forming an additional entrance. Small shed with brick nogging attached to S.E. corner. Brick chimney at the E. gable, with scalloped barge boards.

29. Esh Winning - A temporary iron school was established in March 1871 for 13 pupils. At its formal opening by J.W. Pease on 18.11.1871, there were 50 pupils (47). It stood between the mine and the pit reservoir. It ceased to function as a school after the opening of a large brick school in 1892. During its early history it was also used as a meeting place for the Methodist groups and the Baptists.

30. Gateshead - Catholic church of Our Lady and St Wilfrid, in Sunderland Row, seating 500 (48).

31. Gilesgate Moor - A Council mixed school was built in 1908 for 278 children, and was still in use around 1972. Removed c.1985.

32. Greenside Colliery - Church hall, built in 1906 for £1,000. An old postcard photograph shows it to be a long, broad building, with a chimney at one end, and two projecting sections at the other, giving it a T-plan (49). The narrow projecting sections were gabled, but their ridge level was lower than that of the main part of the building. The long walls have tall 6-pane windows, the upper fanlights opening inwards. The gable was divided up by external timbers, the broad end having two doors, flanked by paired windows, each of two lights. In the upper level was a very broad curved-headed window divided by three mullions. There was an upper window in the projecting sections.

33. Hamsterley - Iron mission room of 1892 close to the vicarage, comprising a small W. porch, a nave partitioned into two by a folding wooden screen, and a chancel. The W. part of the nave has two corner cupboards, fixed folding table flap, and a modern sink. The main part of the nave has no pews, metal framed chairs are used. The chancel has a carved wooden communion rail, and a narrow table-altar has been brought forward from the E. wall, on a raised surface. Behind the altar is a shelf, with a stepped wooden cross of 1893. The chancel is flanked by curtained-off chambers, now used for storage. The roof structure comprises four principal rafter trusses with scissor braces. The E. truss also has a tie beam, and angled struts. Originally there were two triangular dormer-like features either side of the gabled roof, although only one survives. At the W. end is a simple bell cote with one bell.

34. Hamsterley Colliery - Primitive Methodist chapel built in 1884 for 150 worshippers at a cost of £200 (50).

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