19 Villiers Street, Presbyterian Chapel
19 Villiers Street, Presbyterian Chapel
HER Number
4457
District
Sunderland
Site Name
19 Villiers Street, Presbyterian Chapel
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Presbyterian Chapel
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
‘St George’s Chapel’/Smyrna Chapel (Presbyterian). 1825 -1890, by James Hogg, for group from Robinson’s Lane. Cost c£4000. 1890 Congregation moved to Belvedere Road - the building then passed to another body of Presbyterians which had previously occupied meeting houses in Borough Road (Smyrna Chapel) and Spring Garden Lane, and was renamed ‘St James’ Chapel’). Pedimented ashlar front; coursed squared stone returns and rear with ashlar dressings. Classical style.the date MDCCCXXV appears in raised letters on the pediment. In front are contemporary iron railings, gates and scrolled overthrow’.Now business training centre. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
440100
Northing
556990
Grid Reference
NZ440100556990
Sources
<< HER 4457 >> Mackenzie & Ross, 1834, Historical....View of the County Palatinate of Durham, p 294
N. Pevsner, (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England: County Durham, p 451; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland
N. Pevsner, (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England: County Durham, p 451; The Archaeological Practice Ltd., 2014, List of Non-Conformist Chapels in Sunderland