South East Lodge Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

SUNDERLAND

NZ35NE CHESTER ROAD 920-1/4/31 (North side) South-East Lodge Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

GV II

Lodge at south entrance to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery.1856. By Thomas Moore. English garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings; Welsh slate roof with fishscale decoration, stone gable copings, cast-iron cresting and brick and ashlar chimneys. T-plan with extruded porch. One storey, 1:1 windows. Elevation to drive has central gabled porch with boarded door and panel above in high pointed arch with moulded stone surround; stone-coped gable has high conical finial. 2-light mullioned and transomed window to left. Gabled cross wing at right has renewed window in chamfered stone surround and a narrow window with fleur-de-lys finial on high pointed dripmould in gable peak, and stone gable copings with high pointed finials. Left return facing Chester Road has mullioned and transomed canted bay window with hipped roof, and gable window similar to that facing drive. Steeply pitched roof with bands of fishscale decoration has lost some cresting. 2 ridge chimneys. (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: NZ3754256141