HEWORTH (NETHER), a chapelry in the parish of
JARROW, eastern division of CHESTER ward, county palatine
of DURHAM, 2 miles (B.S.E.) from Gateshead, containing
3921 inhabitants. The chapel, erected by subscription
in 1822, on the site of a former one, at an expense
of £2026, contains one thousand four hundred
sittings, of which six hundred and eighty-seven are
free, the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of
churches and chapels having granted £500 towards defraying
the expense. In the church-yard is an inscribed
obelisk recording the names and ages of ninety-one persons
who were killed by explosion of fire damp in Felling
colliery, in 1812, and buried here side by side; also
a tomb-stone in memory of Richard Dawes, A.M., author
of Miscellanea Critica, $c., and head master of the
grammar school at Newcastle, who spent a portion of the
latter part of his life at this place, where he died. Here
are manufactories for copperas, earthenware, paper, and
ropes 5 also many ship-yards, wherein are constructed
vessels of large burden. The neighbourhood abounds
with coal pits. A few years since an earthen vessel was
discovered, containing coins struck by Egfrid, one of
the Saxon kings of Northumberland. Here is a school
for boys and girls, with apartments for the master and
mistress.