Sorley Street/Chester Street West, chapel

HER Number

13639

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sorley Street/Chester Street West, chapel

Place

Millfield

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

Documentary Evidence

Description

Sorley Street, Congregational Church (now St Bede’s United Reformed Church). 1890-1891 by John Eltringham .Gothic with narrow spire, and tall spirelet. Spacious interior with arcades. Impressive oak pulpit, formerly in a central position. Brick hall top rear. Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map of circa 1898.

Easting

438210

Northing

556660

Grid Reference

NZ438210556660

Sources

Ordnance Survey Second Edition Map 1898; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non Conformist Chapels in Sunderland; Corfe, T and Milburn, G. Buildings and Beliefs. An Architectural Guide to Places of Worship in the Borough of Sunderland. Wearside Historic Churches Group 1984