Tyne and Wear HER(4436): Sunderland, Assembly Rooms - Details
4436
Sunderland
Sunderland, Assembly Rooms
Sunderland
NZ45NW
Civil
Meeting Hall
Assembly Hall
Post Medieval
C18
Documentary Evidence
The Assembly Rooms were to the west of Holy Trinity and are shown on Rain’s Eye Plan with a range of buildings to the south, a square or green in front, and a wall and railing with a gate to the east. A later range of buildings was built on the north side. Both ranges were almshouses. In the 18th century the assembly rooms were taken over by the Trustees of the Sunderland Muster Roll as a charity for disabled sailors and their dependants.
4053
5711
NZ40535711
<< HER 4436 >> J. Rain, 1785, An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth
Clay, Miller & Milburn, 1984, An Eye Plan of Sunderland and Bishopwearmouth, p 33
J. Woods, 1826, Plan of the Towns of Sunderland, Bishopwearmouth and Monkwearmouth