Sunderland, Villiers Street, No. 19, Presbyterian Chapel

HER Number:
4457

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Villiers Street, No. 19, Presbyterian Chapel

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Presbyterian Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
‘St George’s Chapel’/Smyrna Chapel (Presbyterian). 1825 -1890, by James Hogg, for group from Robinson’s Lane. Cost c£4000. 1890 Congregation moved to Belvedere Road - the building then passed to another body of Presbyterians which had previously occupied meeting houses in Borough Road (Smyrna Chapel) and Spring Garden Lane, and was renamed ‘St James’ Chapel’). Pedimented ashlar front; coursed squared stone returns and rear with ashlar dressings. Classical style.the date MDCCCXXV appears in raised letters on the pediment. In front are contemporary iron railings, gates and scrolled overthrow’.Now business training centre. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
4010

Northing:
5699

Grid Reference:
NZ40105699

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4457 >> Mackenzie & Ross, 1834, Historical....View of the County Palatinate of Durham, p 294 N. Pevsner, (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England: County Durham, p 451; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland