Church of St Paul
CHURCH OF ST PAUL, RYHOPE STREET SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217835
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, RYHOPE STREET SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217835
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Paul
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, RYHOPE STREET SOUTH
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:
- CHURCH OF ST PAUL, RYHOPE STREET SOUTH
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 40996 53031
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ45SW RYHOPE STREET SOUTH, Ryhope 920-1/7/259 (North East side) Church of St Paul
GV II
Parish church. 1868-73. By TC Ebdy; chancel and N aisle 1920. First build rock-faced snecked limestone with rock-faced sandstone quoins and ashlar dressings; second build sandstone ashlar; ashlar-coped plinth throughout; Welsh slate roof first build, Lakeland slate roof second build, both with stone gable copings. Chancel with N vestry and S organ chamber; nave with N aisle and S transept, tower and aisle. EXTERIOR: stepped, coped angle buttresses of first build project more. All windows of first build have alternate-block jambs and steeply-sloping sills. 3 E lancets with roundel above in gabled chancel with Lombard frieze on N and S elevations over paired lancets, continuing along 5-bay N aisle. S transept has high 3-light window with geometric tracery; block-stopped dripmould under gable with stone cross finial. Adjacent 3-stage tower has 2 orders of nookshafts to roll-moulded pointed arch over double panelled door and soffit panel with low-relief cross; raised straight-pointed dripmould has block finial and stops; similar but smaller dripmoulds over 2 small lancet slits flanking clock above; sill and impost strings to paired tall belfry lancets, louvres renewed, with nookshafts and roll-moulded arches; cornice and pyramidal roof. Left return of tower has wide stepped buttress in front of square projection with high plinth reducing to octagonal-plan stair turret. Turret has pointed arcaded string to top slits below hipped stone roof against tower. Clerestory quatrefoils over S aisle with paired lancets. W nave gable has paired 2-light W windows with cusped quatrefoil tracery and small roundel in gable peak under stone cross finial; pent S aisle has paired cusped W lancets; gabled N aisle has triple cusped lights. INTERIOR shows shouldered arch in tower porch to stair turret. 5-bay arcades, the N of chamfered pointed arches on tall round piers with octagonal capitals; the S arcade includes 2 arches to transept and has short round piers with alternately round and square capitals and double-chamfered pointed arches, one chamfer hollow. Chancel arch and arcade ends rest on paired corbelled shafts. Arch-braced collar and kingpost roof on stone corbels; S aisle has transverse arch to tower. Glass includes high quality W window to WN Taylor, d.1875, with Old Testament figures; and S aisle W end high quality by Bacon Bros (signed 3 bees and triangle) with yellow stain. N aisle second window memorial with a portrait figure to 2nd. Lieut. Bell, D.L.I., d.1917, signed J Eadie Reed. Rood screen and painted carved reredos wood with perpendicular tracery; octagonal stone font. (Corfe T and Milburn G: Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland: 1984-: 38; Date information from vicar).
Listing NGR: NZ4099653031
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391578
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Corfe, T, Milburn, G, Buildings and Beliefs, (1984), 38
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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