WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS AROUND FORMER GRAVEYARD AND CHAPEL, NOW RENT OFFICE

WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS AROUND FORMER GRAVEYARD AND CHAPEL, NOW RENT OFFICE, RYHOPE VILLAGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218238
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS AROUND FORMER GRAVEYARD AND CHAPEL, NOW RENT OFFICE
Statutory Address:: WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS AROUND FORMER GRAVEYARD AND CHAPEL, NOW RENT OFFICE, RYHOPE VILLAGE

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Date:: 2001-08-26
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1218238
Date first listed:: 17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS AROUND FORMER GRAVEYARD AND CHAPEL, NOW RENT OFFICE
Statutory Address 1:: WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS AROUND FORMER GRAVEYARD AND CHAPEL, NOW RENT OFFICE, RYHOPE VILLAGE

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:: WALL, GATES AND RAILINGS AROUND FORMER GRAVEYARD AND CHAPEL, NOW RENT OFFICE, RYHOPE VILLAGE

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 41053 52897

Details

SUNDERLAND

NZ4152NW THE VILLAGE, Ryhope 920-1/23/271 (North side) Wall, gates and railings around former graveyard and chapel, now rent office

GV II

Shown on OS as around CoE School. Wall of graveyard to former chapel, later infants' school, then library, now rent office; with piers, gates, and railings to former chapel. c1827, with some repairs. Limestone rubble graveyard wall with brick coping; lower wall to former chapel has ashlar coping and piers at ends and at main gates; wrought-iron railings and gates. Graveyard wall extends round W, N, E and SE sides of grass to N of former chapel and is of irregular courses with gabled brick coping; high wall also continues from E extension of chapel around SE corner, with stepped pyramidal ashlar coping at corner and junction with low wall. 3 square piers to W and S of former chapel: that at W of rusticated ashlar, gate piers to S of coursed squared stone, all with stepped pyramidal ashlar coping. Lower wall linking them and joining high wall at SE has wrought-iron railings and cast-iron principals, and is interrupted by gate at SW. Plaque attached to former chapel N wall has `This open space forms part of the churchyard of the Parish of St Paul's Ryhope and was used for burials 1827 to 1861'

Listing NGR: NZ4105352897

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Legacy System number:: 391618
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.