Church Walk, wall to N of Trafalgar Almhouses
Church Walk, wall to N of Trafalgar Almhouses
HER Number
4774
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Church Walk, wall to N of Trafalgar Almhouses
Place
Sunderland
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
Class
Monument <By Form>
Site Type: Broad
Barrier
Site Type: Specific
Wall
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
Forecourt and yard walls, piers and railings to Trafalgar Square Almhouses (qv). 1840 for the Trustees of the Muster Roll. Pebbledashed front wall; rubble yard wall at left, with brick coping and brick yard wall at right with ashlar door lintel and coping; rendered gate piers, ashlar piers at outer ends of railings and brick pier to right brick wall. Low front walls, now pebbledashed, with elliptical - section stone coping, end in 4 tall square stone piers which have plinth, cornice and blocking course. To left, a rubble wall with 20th century gabled brick coping; to right, a brick wall with flat stone coping ends in tall sqare pier linking it to wall of yard of caretaker's cottage of Holy Trinity (qv). In this right wall a central projection has a flat stone lintel over a blocked door. Gates and railings renewed. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
440650
Northing
557230
Grid Reference
NZ440650557230
Sources
<< HER 4774 >> Dept. of National Heritage, of Buildings of Special ... Interest, 920-1/12/51