Sunderland, Cowan Terrace, West Park United Reformed Church

HER Number:
4778

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Sunderland, Cowan Terrace, West Park United Reformed Church

Place:
Sunderland

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Place of Worship

Site Type: Specific:
Congregational Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
This Congregational church, now a United Reformed Church, was built in 1881-83 to a design by J.P. Pritchett. It is built in coursed rock-faced stone with an ashlar plinth & dressings, and red granite shafts. It has a graduated Lakeland slate roof with stone gable copings. It is an east apsed church with schoolrooms in a 2-storey ambulatory, and has double transepts and an aisled nave. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3950

Northing:
5651

Grid Reference:
NZ39505651

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 4778 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/20/212; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland