Central Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

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SUNDERLAND CHESTER ROAD (North side (off)) Central 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 S is ritual E. Nave and sanctuary with N vestry, W porch and SW chapel. Stone surround to high 4-light E window with dripmould and Dec tracery 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 lancets and door alternating with plain sides, under high 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 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. Most openings blocked and building out of use at time of survey. (Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 157; Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 15).

Listing NGR: NZ3732356392