Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ35NE CHESTER ROAD
920-1/4/32 (North side (off))
South 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 N is ritual E. Nave and sanctuary with
N vestry, W porch and SW chapel.
Stone surround to high 4-light E window with drip 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 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 stepped 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.
Openings blocked and building out of use at time of survey.

Listing NGR: NZ3736856258

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502235

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