North Chapel of Sunderland Cemetery
NORTH CHAPEL OF SUNDERLAND CEMETERY, RYHOPE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279868
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- North Chapel of Sunderland Cemetery
- Statutory Address:
- NORTH CHAPEL OF SUNDERLAND CEMETERY, RYHOPE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279868
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- North Chapel of Sunderland Cemetery
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTH CHAPEL OF SUNDERLAND CEMETERY, RYHOPE 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:
- NORTH CHAPEL OF SUNDERLAND CEMETERY, RYHOPE 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 40700 54478
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ45SW RYHOPE ROAD 920-1/7/196 (West side (off)) North Chapel of Sunderland Cemetery
GV II
Chapel of municipal cemetery. c1858. Snecked limestone rubble with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and wrought-iron finial. Geographical N is ritual E. Nave with sanctuary and transepts, N vestry, W porch and NW tower. Decorated style with tracery and buttresses. Half-octagonal sanctuary has cusped lights under lion-masked eaves gutter to pointed roof; transepts have 3-light windows on sill string with ball-leaf stops. W porch has diagonal stepped buttresses flanking double door in pointed-arched moulded surround with irregular block jamb, under gable with fleur-de-lys finial. Trefoil in nave gable peak above. Square tower set back slightly from porch has tall lancets with alternate block jambs and flower-stopped hoodmoulds to geometric tracery; gabled diagonal buttresses stepped back to gables with incised trefoils; tower reduces to octagonal plan behind these and rises through receding stepped coping to high octagonal belfry stage with high pointed-arched louvred openings under head-stopped dripstring; tall stone spire. Roof has fleur-de-lys finials on overlapping stone gable coping; E wrought-iron cross finial.
Listing NGR: NZ4070054478
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391571
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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