Sunderland, James Williams Street, Nos. 1-10

HER Number:
1704

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, James Williams Street, Nos. 1-10

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Domestic

Site Type: Broad:
Multiple Dwelling

Site Type: Specific:
Terrace

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
A planned Victorian street community consisting of a terrace of 10 two-storey, two bay red brick houses. At the southern end of the terrace is a three bay hospital building bearing an inscription on a plaque above the central doorway: "This hospital belongs to the Freemen of the Ancient Borough 1719", and below: "Built by subscription on this site 1876". To the south of the hospital is a 3 bay mission chapel dated 1872, with a rose window over the central doorway. There is a similar chapel at the northern end of the terrace dated 1878, opposite the Victorian board school of 1874. The board school was the first of its type to be built in the town following the Education Act of 1870.

Easting:
404

Northing:
572

Grid Reference:
NZ404572

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 1704 >> Industrial Archaeology card Corfe, History of Sunderland