Hylton Chapel

Hylton Chapel is a Grade I listed building located on Craigavon Road in Sunderland. Founded in the 12th century, with the first chaplain recorded in 1157, the current structure dates from around 1400, with alterations made in the 16th century and repairs in the 18th century. The chapel features a chancel and part of a nave with transepts. It has a chamfered plinth and a two-bay chancel that includes a large five-light perpendicular east window, diagonal east buttresses, and a part of a 13th-century keeled shaft that has been reused in the buttress stump on the south side. The transepts are large and canted, with three lights on all five sides except the east, and they include a plinth, sill, and hood strings. The one-bay nave has a west elevation with a blocked high round 16th-century arch, which contains a lower 18th-century round-headed door with a Gibbs surround. Above this door is a three-light mullion and transom window with cusping. Heraldic devices, likely from the second half of the 16th century, are found within and outside this arch, flanked by shallow pilasters that have the same moulding as the arch, probably reused, leading to a low-pitched gable. The roof has been removed. Inside, there is an early 15th-century piscina and blocked north and south doors to the chancel, as well as a blocked square-headed mullioned window in the south chancel wall and high round 16th-century arches to the transepts. Hylton Chapel is also a scheduled ancient monument.