CENTRAL CHAPEL BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY

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:: CENTRAL CHAPEL BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, CHESTER ROAD

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 391404
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Corfe, T, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, (1983), 15
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 157

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.