Park Road Methodist Church With School, Walls and Gates Attached
PARK ROAD METHODIST CHURCH WITH SCHOOL, WALLS AND GATES ATTACHED, PARK ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207115
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Park Road Methodist Church With School, Walls and Gates Attached
- Statutory Address:
- PARK ROAD METHODIST CHURCH WITH SCHOOL, WALLS AND GATES ATTACHED, PARK ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207115
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Park Road Methodist Church With School, Walls and Gates Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARK ROAD METHODIST CHURCH WITH SCHOOL, WALLS AND GATES ATTACHED, PARK 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:
- PARK ROAD METHODIST CHURCH WITH SCHOOL, WALLS AND GATES ATTACHED, PARK 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 39786 56284
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3956SE PARK ROAD 920-1/22/168 (South side) Park Road Methodist Church with school, walls and gates attached
GV II
Methodist church, with school, walls and gates attached. 1887. By J Eltringham. For New Connection. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dresings and Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings, terracotta ridge, and stone spire. Aisled nave with transepts and SW tower; SE school; geographical S is ritual E. Decorated style with cusped geometric tracery. EXTERIOR: 3-light transept and 2-light aisle windows on sill string, with stepped 4-light transept window under gable and traceried 2-light aisle gallery windows on sill string, all with dripmoulds. Gabled W entrance has steps up to paired shafted boarded doors with roundel in soffit of high pointed moulded arch. High 5-light window rises behind, under dripstring, and fills gable. Spirelet on pinnacle to left of gable; 4-stage tower to right has paired windows in first stage and moulded arch to door in right return; 6-foil roundels in second, paired lancets in third and high louvred belfry openings under crocketed gabled dripmould in fourth; buttresses, gabled in lower stages, rise to polygonal pinnacles with spirelets; high octagonal stone spire. School has gabled moulded arch over boarded door with elaborate hinges; high 4-light window over door; buttressed gable; high ridge ventilator with swept eaves. Dwarf walls link piers in front of tower with school, and have chamfered coping; piers have roll-moulded sloping coping. Wrought-iron gates have spiral motifs. INTERIOR of church shows galleries on 3 sides on cast-iron quatrefoil piers with ringed shafts; hammerbeam roof with boarded coving. High quality furnishings, most of them original, include roll-moulded pews with painted numbers and brass umbrella rails; gothic organ case. High quality stained glass includes N aisle windows by Powell Bros. Leeds; Atkinson Bros. Newcastle; Heaton, Butler and Bayne; S aisle by Atkinson Bros. and Wailes and Strang Artists Newcastle.
Listing NGR: NZ3978656284
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391549
- 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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