St. Thomas Street, church

HER Number

13743

District

Sunderland

Site Name

St. Thomas Street, church

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Church

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Documentary Evidence

Description

Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map of 1896. St Thomas’s Church and Parsonage was destroyed in March 1943 by bomb damage during an air raid. The bomb killed eight people and injured forty-three others. The site was subsequently redeveloped and opened as Joplings Department store in 1956.

Easting

439840

Northing

557060

Grid Reference

NZ439840557060

Sources

Ordnance Survey Second Edition Map 1898; Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates