SOUTH CHAPEL OF SUNDERLAND CEMETERY

SOUTH CHAPEL OF SUNDERLAND CEMETERY, RYHOPE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217808
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: SOUTH CHAPEL OF SUNDERLAND CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: SOUTH CHAPEL OF SUNDERLAND CEMETERY, RYHOPE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1217808
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: SOUTH CHAPEL OF SUNDERLAND CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: SOUTH CHAPEL OF SUNDERLAND CEMETERY, RYHOPE STREET

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:: SOUTH CHAPEL OF SUNDERLAND CEMETERY, RYHOPE STREET

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 40727 54415

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ45SW RYHOPE ROAD 920-1/7/197 (West side (off)) South Chapel of Sunderland Cemetery

GV II

Chapel in municipal cemetery. c1858. Snecked limestone with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Aisled nave with NE tower porch. Decorated style with buttresses and tracery. Gabled nave has 4-light E and W windows, partly blocked, with cusped geometric tracery; small pent N aisle at E end probably vestry, has 2-light windows; 4-centred-arched W door in gabled S aisle; NE open-arched porch has big stepped buttresses flanking high moulded pointed arches with dripstrings; similar strings and mouldings to cusped triangular lights above; coping steps back to octagonal second stage with gabled canopies over blocked single cusped lights; top cornice; spire removed. Gables have overlapping stone coping. Out of use at time of survey. Included for group value only.

Listing NGR: NZ4072754415

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Legacy System number:: 391574
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.