Cowan Terrace, West Park United Reformed Church

HER Number

4778

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Cowan Terrace, West Park United Reformed Church

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Congregational Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

This Congregational church, now a United Reformed Church, was built in 1881-83 to a design by J.P. Pritchett. It is built in coursed rock-faced stone with an ashlar plinth & dressings, and red granite shafts. It has a graduated Lakeland slate roof with stone gable copings. It is an east apsed church with schoolrooms in a 2-storey ambulatory, and has double transepts and an aisled nave. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

439500

Northing

556510

Grid Reference

NZ439500556510

Sources

<< HER 4778 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/20/212; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland