Hylton Chapel
HYLTON CHAPEL, CRAIGAVON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1293281
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Hylton Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- HYLTON CHAPEL, CRAIGAVON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1293281
- Date first listed:
- 25-Feb-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Hylton Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- HYLTON CHAPEL, CRAIGAVON 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:
- HYLTON CHAPEL, CRAIGAVON 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:
- NZ3583258826
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ35NE CRAIGAVON ROAD 920-1/4/55 (East side (off)) 25/02/49 Hylton Chapel (Formerly Listed as: WASHINGTON ROAD, Castletown (South side) Hylton Chapel)
GV I
Founded C12 (first chaplain 1157). Present structure c1400 with alterations C16, repairs C18. Chancel and part of nave with transepts. Chamfered plinth. 2-bay chancel has large 5-light perpendicular E window, diagonal E buttresses, and part of C13 keeled shaft re-used in buttress stump on S side. Big canted transepts with 3 lights in all 5 sides except E with plinth and sill and hood strings. One-bay nave has west elevation with blocked high round C16 arch; within this a lower C18 round-headed door with Gibbs surround below 3-light mullion and transom window with cusping. Heraldic devices probably of second half of C16 within and outside this arch, flanked by shallow pilasters of same moulding as arch, probably reused, to low-pitched gable. Roof removed. INTERIOR: shows early C15 piscina and N and S blocked doors to chancel; blocked, square headed mullioned window in S chancel wall; high round C16 arches to transepts. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (Official Handbooks: Morley BM: Hylton Castle, Tyne and Wear: London: 1979-).
Listing NGR: NZ3584058825
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391435
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morley, B M, Hylton Castle, (1979)
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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