South Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

The South Chapel at Bishopwearmouth Cemetery is a Grade II listed building, designed by Thomas Moore and completed in 1856. This chapel, part of a pair intended for Anglican and Non-Conformist use, is built in the Decorated style. It features a brick structure with an ashlar plinth and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof that includes fishscale decoration, ashlar gable copings, and a bellcote.

The chapel is oriented with its geographical north facing ritual east. It consists of a nave and sanctuary, with a north vestry, a west porch, and a southwest chapel. The eastern gable boasts a high four-light window with a stone surround and a drip. The three-bay nave and one-bay sanctuary are adorned with lancet windows that have dripmoulds over plain stone surrounds, arranged in bays marked by stepped gabled buttresses.

The southwest chapel is octagonal and features a hipped roof with lucarnes above the windows and door. The west porch, flanked by lancets, has a long ogee dripmould over the door, which is set in a moulded pointed arch beneath a gable supported by gabled angle stepped buttresses. Behind the porch, the octagonal projection rises to a shafted octagonal bellcote, which has two tiers of gabled arcaded sides topped with a stone spirelet. The steeply pitched roof is decorated with bands of fishscale patterns and gable copings. At the time of the survey, the openings were blocked and the building was out of use.