Durham Road, cemetery

HER Number

8846

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Durham Road, cemetery

Place

Houghton-le-Spring

Map Sheet

NZ34NW

Class

Religious Ritual and Funerary

Site Type: Broad

Cemetery

Site Type: Specific

Cemetery

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Houghton-le-Spring Cemetery opened on 1 March 1892 on Durham Road. The cemetery, lodge and railings cost £4000. The parish church's detached burial ground (HER 6052) was by then very full. Houghton Cemetery was consecrated in 1907. In the 1930s the cemetery was extended to the east to Hetton Road. Toilets were built in the centre of the cemetery. There are 38 war casualties buried in the cemetery, commemorated with 27 CWGC headstones. Around 1939 August William Cooper was the cemetery superintendent and he lived in the lodge on Durham Road with his family.

Easting

434080

Northing

549020

Grid Reference

NZ434080549020

Sources

Ordnance Survey second edition 1890; Paul Lanagan, 2011, Houghton-le-Spring Cemetery, www.houghtonlespring.org.uk; Paul Lanagan, 2011, Houghton's War Graves, www.houghtonlespring.org.uk/articles/wargraves