South Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. A C19 Chapel.
South Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
- WRENN ID
- knotted-pewter-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1994
- Type
- Chapel
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SUNDERLAND
NZ35NE CHESTER ROAD 920-1/4/32 (North side (off)) South Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery
GV II
Chapel, one of identical pair for Anglican and Non-Conformist use, in municipal cemetery. 1856. By Thomas Moore. Decorated style. Brick with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with fishscale decoration, ashlar gable copings and bellcote. Geographical N is ritual E. Nave and sanctuary with N vestry, W porch and SW chapel. Stone surround to high 4-light E window with drip under E gable; 3-bay nave and one-bay sanctuary have lancets with dripmoulds over plain stone surrounds, in bays defined by stepped gabled buttresses. SW octagonal chapel has hipped roof with lucarnes over windows and door. W porch, flanked by lancets, has long ogee dripmould over door in moulded pointed arch under gable on gabled angle stepped buttresses; octagonal projection behind porch rises to shafted octagonal bellcote with 2 tiers of gabled arcaded sides and stone spirelet. Steeply pitched roof has bands of fishscale patterns and gable copings. Openings blocked and building out of use at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ3736856258
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