Church of St George with Trinity and St James

HER Number

4777

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Church of St George with Trinity and St James

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific

Presbyterian Chapel

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

This Presbyterian church, now a United Reformed Church, with adjacent hall, and walls and gates attached was built in 1888-90 to the design of John Bennie Wilson of Glasgow. Much of the finance was provided by R.A. Bartram, shipowner, who laid the foundation stone on February 7th, 1889. It is built of rock-faced red Dumfries sandstone with ashlar dressings, and has a roof of small Lakeland slates with red terracotta ridge tiles and stone gable finials. LISTED GRADE 2*

Easting

439540

Northing

556280

Grid Reference

NZ439540556280

Sources

<< HER 4777 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/22/17; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland