1-10 James Williams Street
1-10 James Williams Street
HER Number
1704
District
Sunderland
Site Name
1-10 James Williams Street
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
Class
Domestic
Site Type: Broad
Terrace
Site Type: Specific
Terrace
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
A planned Victorian street community consisting of a terrace of 10 two-storey, two bay red brick houses. At the southern end of the terrace is a three bay hospital building bearing an inscription on a plaque above the central doorway: "This hospital belongs to the Freemen of the Ancient Borough 1719", and below: "Built by subscription on this site 1876". To the south of the hospital is a 3 bay mission chapel dated 1872, with a rose window over the central doorway. There is a similar chapel at the northern end of the terrace dated 1878, opposite the Victorian board school of 1874. The board school was the first of its type to be built in the town following the Education Act of 1870.
Easting
440400
Northing
557200
Grid Reference
NZ440400557200
Sources
<< HER 1704 >> Industrial Archaeology card
Corfe, History of Sunderland
Corfe, History of Sunderland