Ryhope, The Village, rent office (chapel of ease)
Ryhope, The Village, rent office (chapel of ease)
HER Number
7216
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Ryhope, The Village, rent office (chapel of ease)
Place
Ryhope
Map Sheet
NZ45SW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Chapel of Ease
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Shown on Ordnance Survey as Church of England School.
Church of Enmgland chapel of ease to Church of St. Michael, Bishopwearmouth (HER ?161), later infants’ school, then library, now rent office. 1826-7; change of use to school c1870, library by 1984. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Roof is of thick grey slates with ashlar bellcote and copings. One storey. One-window porch with lower rear extension. Main block has 2 wide renewed mullion and transom windows. Porch left return has pointed-arch window. Similar window in porch rear extension.
Interior – wide inner architrave to door from porch to inquiries counter. Some dado panelling in lobby to counter.
Ceased use as chapel when new Church of St. Paul opened. LISTED GRADE 2
Church of Enmgland chapel of ease to Church of St. Michael, Bishopwearmouth (HER ?161), later infants’ school, then library, now rent office. 1826-7; change of use to school c1870, library by 1984. Limestone rubble with ashlar dressings. Roof is of thick grey slates with ashlar bellcote and copings. One storey. One-window porch with lower rear extension. Main block has 2 wide renewed mullion and transom windows. Porch left return has pointed-arch window. Similar window in porch rear extension.
Interior – wide inner architrave to door from porch to inquiries counter. Some dado panelling in lobby to counter.
Ceased use as chapel when new Church of St. Paul opened. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
441070
Northing
552890
Grid Reference
NZ441070552890
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/23/270; Sunderland City Council, July 2010, Ryhope Village Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Strategy (Consultation Draft); William Whellan & Co, 1856, History, Topography and Directory of the County Palatine of Durham, p 615-616; Archaeological Services Durham University, 2008, Ryhope Rent Office, Ryhope, Sunderland - Archaeological Watching Brief