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North Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

A Grade II Listed Building in Pallion, Sunderland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.9022 / 54°54'8"N

Longitude: -1.418 / 1°25'4"W

OS Eastings: 437417

OS Northings: 556546

OS Grid: NZ374565

Mapcode National: GBR V69.09

Mapcode Global: WHD5C.610P

Plus Code: 9C6WWH2J+VQ

Entry Name: North Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

Listing Date: 17 October 1994

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1279542

English Heritage Legacy ID: 391405

ID on this website: 101279542

Location: Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Ford, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR4

County: Sunderland

Electoral Ward/Division: Pallion

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Sunderland

Traditional County: Durham

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear

Church of England Parish: Bishopwearmouth St Gabriel

Church of England Diocese: Durham

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Description


SUNDERLAND

NZ35NE CHESTER ROAD 920-1/4/34 (North side (off)) North Chapel Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

GV II

Municipal cemetery chapel, originally Roman Catholic but now used by all denominations. Possibly 1856 by Thomas Moore. Brick with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with bands of Lakeland slate, terracotta ridge cresting, ashlar bellcote and gable copings. 3-bay nave with S porch, one-bay apsed chancel, defined by buttresses. Polygonal apse has hipped roof. Gabled porch has double boarded doors under elliptical lintel and timber framing to gable with cross finial to bargeboards. Paired cusped lancets on sill string have alternate block jambs; W elevation has 3 lancets separated by stepped buttresses rising to triple bellcote with high pyramidal spirelet and cross finial; 4-centred-arched cusped corbelling to centre of bellcote forms canopy to eroded statue set between buttresses on wall bracket.

Listing NGR: NZ3741756546

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