FORMER PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL

FORMER PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL, 19, VILLIERS STREET, SR1 1EJ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292024
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
List Entry Name:: FORMER PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: FORMER PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL, 19, VILLIERS STREET, SR1 1EJ

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1292024
Date first listed:: 10-Nov-1978
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Oct-1994
List Entry Name:: FORMER PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL, 19, VILLIERS STREET, SR1 1EJ

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:: FORMER PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL, 19, VILLIERS STREET, SR1 1EJ

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 40108 56996

Details

NZ 4057, 920-1/12/229

SUNDERLAND, VILLIERS STREET (West side) No.19, former Presbyterian Chapel

(Formerly Listed as: VILLIERS STREET (West side), No.19)

10/11/78

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II

Formerly known as: Chapel of St George VILLIERS STREET. Shown on O.S. as West Park College (Technical School). Presbyterian Chapel, now business training centre, with railings. Dated 1825. By James Hogg. Ashlar front, coursed squared stone returns and rear with ashlar dressings; roof not visible. Classical style, symmetrical.

EXTERIOR: Two storeys, three windows in five bays. Pedimented central projection has giant pilasters defining bays, the central wider with double panelled door and overlight with glazing bars in projecting plain stone surround with cornice and blocking course; round-headed window above with glazing bars has slightly recessed surround; similar windows in plain surrounds in flanking bays; sill strings between pilasters and in recessed outer bays which have rusticated ground floor and recessed tall rectangular panels above. Top entablature, with blank panel over central bay and restored Roman numerals MDCCCXXV in pediment; former letters (? presbyterian chapel) removed. Corniced block rises behind pediment peak; blocking course over outer pilasters and stepped down over outer bays. Returns have single ashlar bay as on front, completing angle treatment, and continue in rubble with round-headed windows which have raised stone surrounds with key and impost blocks; rear, also rubble, has shallow apse.

(Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 156; Buildings of England: Pevsner (revised Williamson): County Durham: Harmondsworth: 1983-: 452).

Listing NGR: NZ4010856996

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 391632
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Milburn, G E, Miller, S T, Sunderland: River, Town & People, (1988), 156
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: County Durham, (1983), 452

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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.