Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, North Chapel

HER Number:
7121

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, North 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:
Municipal cemetery chapel, originally Roman Catholic but now used by all denominations. Possibly 1856 by Thomas Moore. Brick with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with bands of Lakeland slate. Terracotta ridge cresting. Ashlar bellcote and gable copings. Polygonal apse. Gabled porch has double boarded doors. Cross finial. Lancets. Triple bellcote with high pyramidal spirelet. Canopy to eroded statue. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3741

Northing:
5654

Grid Reference:
NZ37415654

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/34