South East Lodge Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
SOUTH EAST LODGE BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207881
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- South East Lodge Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH EAST LODGE BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, CHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207881
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- South East Lodge Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH EAST LODGE 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 EAST LODGE 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 37542 56141
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ35NE CHESTER ROAD 920-1/4/31 (North side) South-East Lodge Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
GV II
Lodge at south entrance to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery.1856. By Thomas Moore. English garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with fishscale decoration, stone gable copings, cast-iron cresting and brick and ashlar chimneys. T-plan with extruded porch. One storey, 1:1 windows. Elevation to drive has central gabled porch with boarded door and panel above in high pointed arch with moulded stone surround; stone-coped gable has high conical finial. 2-light mullioned and transomed window to left. Gabled cross wing at right has renewed window in chamfered stone surround and a narrow window with fleur-de-lys finial on high pointed dripmould in gable peak, and stone gable copings with high pointed finials. Left return facing Chester Road has mullioned and transomed canted bay window with hipped roof, and gable window similar to that facing drive. Steeply pitched roof with bands of fishscale decoration has lost some cresting. 2 ridge chimneys. (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: NZ3754256141
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391407
- 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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