North Chapel Of Sunderland Cemetery

SUNDERLAND

NZ45SW RYHOPE ROAD 920-1/7/196 (West side (off)) North Chapel of Sunderland Cemetery

GV II

Chapel of municipal cemetery. c1858. Snecked limestone rubble with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and wrought-iron finial. Geographical N is ritual E. Nave with sanctuary and transepts, N vestry, W porch and NW tower. Decorated style with tracery and buttresses. Half-octagonal sanctuary has cusped lights under lion-masked eaves gutter to pointed roof; transepts have 3-light windows on sill string with ball-leaf stops. W porch has diagonal stepped buttresses flanking double door in pointed-arched moulded surround with irregular block jamb, under gable with fleur-de-lys finial. Trefoil in nave gable peak above. Square tower set back slightly from porch has tall lancets with alternate block jambs and flower-stopped hoodmoulds to geometric tracery; gabled diagonal buttresses stepped back to gables with incised trefoils; tower reduces to octagonal plan behind these and rises through receding stepped coping to high octagonal belfry stage with high pointed-arched louvred openings under head-stopped dripstring; tall stone spire. Roof has fleur-de-lys finials on overlapping stone gable coping; E wrought-iron cross finial.

Listing NGR: NZ4070054478