Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, central chapel

HER Number:
7120

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, central chapel

Place:
Bishopwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:
Chapel

Site Type: Specific:
Cemetery Chapel

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Chapel, one of identical pair for Anglican and Nonconformist use in municipal cemetery, 1856. By Thomas Moore. Decorated style. Brick with ashlar plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof with fishscale decoration and ashlar gable copings. Octagonal chapel. Lancet windows. West porch. Octagonal bellcote with two tiers of arcades and stone spirelets. Most openings blocked and building out of use at time of survey. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3732

Northing:
5638

Grid Reference:
NZ37325638

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/33; GE Milburn and ST Miller, 1988, Sunderland River, Town and People, p 157 T. Corfe, 1983, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, p 15