North Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. Chapel.
North Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- veiled-postern-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Sunderland Central MP: Lewis Atkinson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1994
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- North Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road
- OS grid reference
- NZ 374 565
- Coordinates
- 54.90225, -1.41805
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Chapel in Bishopwearmouth Cemetery is a municipal cemetery chapel that was originally Roman Catholic but is now used by all denominations. It was possibly built in 1856 by Thomas Moore. The chapel is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with bands of Lakeland slate, terracotta ridge cresting, an ashlar bellcote, and gable copings.
The structure has a three-bay nave with a south porch and a one-bay apsed chancel, which is defined by buttresses. The polygonal apse has a hipped roof. The gabled porch contains double boarded doors beneath an elliptical lintel, and the timber framing of the gable is topped with a cross finial on the bargeboards.
On the west elevation, there are three paired cusped lancets on a sill string with alternate block jambs, and the elevation is separated by stepped buttresses that rise to a triple bellcote topped with a high pyramidal spirelet and a cross finial. The bellcote features 4-centred-arched cusped corbelling at its center, which forms a canopy for an eroded statue set between the buttresses on a wall bracket.
Local climate
North Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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