Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, North Chapel

HER Number

7121

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, North 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

Municipal cemetery chapel, originally Roman Catholic but now used by all denominations. Possibly 1856 by Thomas Moore. Brick with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with bands of Lakeland slate. Terracotta ridge cresting. Ashlar bellcote and gable copings. Polygonal apse. Gabled porch has double boarded doors. Cross finial. Lancets. Triple bellcote with high pyramidal spirelet. Canopy to eroded statue. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

437410

Northing

556540

Grid Reference

NZ437410556540

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/34