South Entrance Including Gates, Piers and Railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
SOUTH ENTRANCE INCLUDING GATES, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, CHESTER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207930
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- South Entrance Including Gates, Piers and Railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH ENTRANCE INCLUDING GATES, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO BISHOPWEARMOUTH CEMETERY, CHESTER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1207930
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- South Entrance Including Gates, Piers and Railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH ENTRANCE INCLUDING GATES, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO 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 ENTRANCE INCLUDING GATES, PIERS AND RAILINGS TO 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 37590 56168
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ35NE CHESTER ROAD 920-1/4/30 (North side) South entrance incl. gates, piers & railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
GV II
South entrance and boundary railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery. 1856. By Thomas Moore. Entrance piers and gates flanked by railings extending c200 metres to W and 200 metres to E along Chester Road. Painted cast-iron piers and railings; ashlar piers to flanking walls; brick dwarf walls with ashlar coping. Perpendicular style. Open octagonal cast-iron gate piers have central ornamental band; brattished decoration on high swept coping with bud finials. Gates have dog bars below pierced quatrefoil band, and lozenge-shaped bud finials. Serpentine walls with chamfered ashlar coping support railings, ramped to piers, with similar pierced band above shorter dogbars, and similar finials. Painted ashlar octagonal piers flank serpentine entrance walls and have brattished ornament on high coping. (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: NZ3759056168
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391413
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988)
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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