Church of Our Blessed Lady Immaculate and Presbytery Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. Church.
Church of Our Blessed Lady Immaculate and Presbytery Adjoining
- WRENN ID
- graven-garret-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Constituency
- Washington and Gateshead South MP: Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1985
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- NZ 308 566
- Coordinates
- 54.90364, -1.52087
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Our Blessed Lady Immaculate and the adjoining presbytery is a Roman Catholic parish church built between 1877 and 1878 by A.M. Dunn of Newcastle. It is constructed from rock-faced snecked sandstone and features a roof made of plain tiles. The church has a three-bay aisled nave that connects to a one-bay apsed chancel, with a south transept that includes a gable belfry. There is a low north porch leading to the chancel. Designed in the Early English style, the church has two-light windows in the nave, along with one single lancet and two pairs of windows in the aisles. The western bays of the aisles contain two doors flanked by coped gabled buttresses that have niches. The west front features paired lancets in the aisles and a four-light window in the nave, complemented by strings and a central buttress. The straight-sided apse has three paired lancets. The high-pitched roof is topped with an iron cross finial at the west end and a stone finial at the east end. There is a one-storey link to the presbytery near the south transept, built with similar materials. The presbytery is two storeys tall and has a T-plan, designed in a Gothic style with decorated windows and ornamental bargeboards, and features a single coped transverse ridge chimney.
Local climate
Church of Our Blessed Lady Immaculate and Presbytery Adjoining receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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