Sunderland, St. Thomas Street, church

HER Number:
13743

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, St. Thomas Street, church

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Church

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Documentary Evidence

Description:
Shown on Ordnance Survey second edition map of 1896. St Thomas’s Church and Parsonage was destroyed in March 1943 by bomb damage during an air raid. The bomb killed eight people and injured forty-three others. The site was subsequently redeveloped and opened as Joplings Department store in 1956.

Easting:
3984

Northing:
5706

Grid Reference:
NZ39845706

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Ordnance Survey Second Edition Map 1898; Tumman, J, Johnson, M and Lane, A (no date) A walk around Historic Sunderland- The Fawcett and Sunniside Estates