South Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
SOUTH CHAPEL BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207063
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- South Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH CHAPEL BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, CHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207063
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- South Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH 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:
- SOUTH 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:
- NZ 37368 56258
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ35NE CHESTER ROAD 920-1/4/32 (North side (off)) South 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 N is ritual E. Nave and sanctuary with N vestry, W porch and SW chapel. Stone surround to high 4-light E window with drip 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 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 stepped 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. Openings blocked and building out of use at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ3736856258
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391406
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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