Description

BARNARD CASTLE

NZ0516SW HOLE-IN-THE-WALL
770-1/6/79 (West side)
Hole in the Wall Warehouse

II

Formerly known as: Old Meeting House HOLE-IN-THE-WALL.
Methodist meeting house from c1747 until 1764, now warehouse.
Early-mid C18 incorporating earlier archway. Rubble with
quoins and stone dressings; roof of stone flags.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; probably 3-window range, with central
2-storey offshut, possibly a stair wing, to west.
North gable facing Queen Street has low eroded chamfered
elliptical head to arch over lane which passes under the
building. Inserted double boarded vehicle doors at right;
stone surround to blocked opening at left on first floor, with
lower blocking rubble and the upper brick. At right a boarded
loading door under wider wood lintel. In gable peak, old brick
patching high in centre, small blocked opening at left with
flat stone lintel; boarded shutter at right under thin wood
lintel.
Left return, partly blocked at left by adjoining shed, shows
part of one and all of another tall blocked opening with flat
stone lintels.
Right return to public car park behind Market Place shows pent
roof to west wing with blocked openings on each floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: this was the first meeting room of the Methodists
after the group was established c1747 under the leadership of
Joseph Cheesebrough who persuaded Catherine Graves to form a
class at Barnard Castle. This class met here because private
houses were too small for the growing numbers and a secluded
place was needed to avoid attracting attention. John Wesley
probably preached here on his second visit to Barnard Castle
in 1761. The first Methodist chapel (qv) in the town was built
in 1764 in Broad Gate to accommodate the greater numbers.
(Steele A: The History of Methodism in Barnard Castle and..the
Dales...: London: 1857-: 17,29,71 ETC).

Listing NGR: NZ0514316367

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26580333

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