Monkwearmouth, Mere Knolls Cemetery, east lodge and gates

HER Number:
7143

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Monkwearmouth, Mere Knolls Cemetery, east lodge and gates

Place:
Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ46SW

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:
Cemetery lodge and gates. 1856. By Thomas Oliver. Lodge and gateway rock faced stone, possibly magnesian limestone from Marsden Quarry, with ashlar dressings. Lakeland slate roof with cast-iron cresting. Mullion windows and ground-floor bay window. First floor windows under pointed arch. Gothic style. 2 storey. One-storey wing set back at left. Gates wrought-iron. Round panels at dog-bar level. Quatrefoil pattern. High tendril finials to uprights. Trefoil-headed panels and spike finials above central rail. High vehicle entrance pointed arch flanked by pedestrian arches. Ball flower stops on gable coping. Central cross finial. A fine example of local stone and local iron-forging skills. Lodge empty at time of survey and all doors and windows blocked. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
4021

Northing:
6013

Grid Reference:
NZ40216013

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/2/67; T. Corfe, 1983, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, p 15