Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, central chapel
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, central chapel
HER Number
7120
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, central chapel
Place
Bishopwearmouth
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Cemetery Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Chapel, one of identical pair for Anglican and Nonconformist use in municipal cemetery, 1856. By Thomas Moore. Decorated style. Brick with ashlar plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof with fishscale decoration and ashlar gable copings. Octagonal chapel. Lancet windows. West porch. Octagonal bellcote with two tiers of arcades and stone spirelets. Most openings blocked and building out of use at time of survey. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
437320
Northing
556380
Grid Reference
NZ437320556380
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/33; GE Milburn and ST Miller, 1988, Sunderland River, Town and People, p 157
T. Corfe, 1983, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, p 15
T. Corfe, 1983, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, p 15