Central Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
CENTRAL CHAPEL BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207062
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Central Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL CHAPEL BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, CHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207062
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Central Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CENTRAL CHAPEL BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, CHESTER ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CENTRAL CHAPEL BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, CHESTER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ3732356392
Details
NZ35NE
920-1/4/33
SUNDERLAND
CHESTER ROAD
(North side (off))
Central Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
GV
II
Chapel, one of identical pair for Anglican and Non-Conformist
use, in municipal cemetery. 1856. By Thomas Moore. Decorated
style. Brick with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate
roof with fishscale decoration, ashlar gable copings and
bellcote. Geographical S is ritual E. Nave and sanctuary with
N vestry, W porch and SW chapel.
Stone surround to high 4-light E window with dripmould and Dec
tracery under E gable; 3-bay nave and one-bay sanctuary have
lancets with dripmoulds over plain stone surrounds, in bays
defined by stepped gabled buttresses. SW octagonal chapel has
lancets and door alternating with plain sides, under high
hipped roof with lucarnes over windows and door. W porch,
flanked by lancets, has long ogee dripmould over door in
moulded pointed arch under gable on gabled angle buttresses;
octagonal projection behind porch rises to shafted octagonal
bellcote with 2 tiers of gabled arcaded sides and stone
spirelet. Steeply pitched roof has bands of fishscale patterns
and gable copings.
Most openings blocked and building out of use at time of
survey.
(Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People:
Sunderland: 1988-: 157; Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland
1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 15).
Listing NGR: NZ3732356392
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391404
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 157
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 15
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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