Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, South-East Lodge

HER Number:
7123

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, South-East Lodge

Place:
Bishopwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

Class:
Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Cemetery Lodge

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
Lodge at south entrance to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery. 1856. By Thomas Moore. English garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings. Welsh slate roof with fishscale decoration, stone gable copings. Cast-iron cresting and brick and ashlar chimneys. T-plan with central gabled porch with boarded door in high pointed arch. One storey. Mullioned windows. Renewed window in cross wing with fler-de-lys finial on dripmould in gable peak. Bay window to Chester Road. 2 ridge chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3754

Northing:
5615

Grid Reference:
NZ37545615

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/31; GE Milburn and ST Miller, 1988, Sunderland River, Town and People, p 157 T. Corfe, 1983, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, p 15