Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, South-East Lodge
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, South-East Lodge
HER Number
7123
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, South-East Lodge
Place
Bishopwearmouth
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Cemetery Lodge
Site Type: Specific
Cemetery Lodge
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Lodge at south entrance to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery. 1856. By Thomas Moore. English garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings. Welsh slate roof with fishscale decoration, stone gable copings. Cast-iron cresting and brick and ashlar chimneys. T-plan with central gabled porch with boarded door in high pointed arch. One storey. Mullioned windows. Renewed window in cross wing with fler-de-lys finial on dripmould in gable peak. Bay window to Chester Road. 2 ridge chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
437540
Northing
556150
Grid Reference
NZ437540556150
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/31; 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