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Latitude: 54.9228 / 54°55'22"N
Longitude: -1.4425 / 1°26'32"W
OS Eastings: 435832
OS Northings: 558826
OS Grid: NZ358588
Mapcode National: GBR V2N.1D
Mapcode Global: WHD54.TJ9F
Plus Code: 9C6WWHF5+42
Entry Name: Hylton Chapel
Listing Date: 25 February 1949
Last Amended: 17 October 1994
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1293281
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391435
ID on this website: 101293281
Location: Downhill, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR5
County: Sunderland
Electoral Ward/Division: Castle
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Sunderland
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: North Wearside
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: Chapel
SUNDERLAND
NZ35NE CRAIGAVON ROAD
920-1/4/55 (East side (off))
25/02/49 Hylton Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
WASHINGTON ROAD, Castletown
(South side)
Hylton Chapel)
GV I
Founded C12 (first chaplain 1157). Present structure c1400
with alterations C16, repairs C18. Chancel and part of nave
with transepts. Chamfered plinth. 2-bay chancel has large
5-light perpendicular E window, diagonal E buttresses, and
part of C13 keeled shaft re-used in buttress stump on S side.
Big canted transepts with 3 lights in all 5 sides except E
with plinth and sill and hood strings. One-bay nave has west
elevation with blocked high round C16 arch; within this a
lower C18 round-headed door with Gibbs surround below 3-light
mullion and transom window with cusping. Heraldic devices
probably of second half of C16 within and outside this arch,
flanked by shallow pilasters of same moulding as arch,
probably reused, to low-pitched gable. Roof removed.
INTERIOR: shows early C15 piscina and N and S blocked doors to
chancel; blocked, square headed mullioned window in S chancel
wall; high round C16 arches to transepts.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(Official Handbooks: Morley BM: Hylton Castle, Tyne and Wear:
London: 1979-).
Listing NGR: NZ3584058825
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