Parish church. 1888-90. By C Hodgson Fowler. Brick with red sandstone dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof. Aisled nave and chancel. East apse, north-east organ chamber and vestry, south porch, west porches and baptistry. Basilica style. Exterior – plinth to full-height apses - semi-conical roofs. Shallow buttresses with Lombard frieze. Shallow pillars on north and south elevations. Round-headed windows. Interior – full-length arcades with plain round arches on round piers. Roof queen-post trusses. Complete scheme of decoration by James Eadie Reid – painted sanctuary apse with groups of English saints, biblical scenes above high panelled dado along both aisles. Stained glass in many windows, some signed and dated JER 1905. Marble communion rail panelled in cream, green and red. Marble mosaic sanctuary floor includes Frosterley marble. Square dark marble font with Romanesque carved patterns in west baptistry. LISTED GRADE 2
SITEASS
Pevsner - An impressive large red brick basilica of 1888-90 by C. Hodgson Fowler, the sanctuary with marble pavement and altar rails and wall paintings.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Parish church. 1888-90. By C Hodgson Fowler. Brick with red sandstone dressings; graduated Lakeland slate roof. Aisled nave and chancel. East apse, north-east organ chamber and vestry, south porch, west porches and baptistry. Basilica style. Exterior – plinth to full-height apses - semi-conical roofs. Shallow buttresses with Lombard frieze. Shallow pillars on north and south elevations. Round-headed windows. Interior – full-length arcades with plain round arches on round piers. Roof queen-post trusses. Complete scheme of decoration by James Eadie Reid – painted sanctuary apse with groups of English saints, biblical scenes above high panelled dado along both aisles. Stained glass in many windows, some signed and dated JER 1905. Marble communion rail panelled in cream, green and red. Marble mosaic sanctuary floor includes Frosterley marble. Square dark marble font with Romanesque carved patterns in west baptistry.
Site Name
Cornhill Road, Church of St. Columba
Site Type: Specific
Parish Church
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7135
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/8/286
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
4105
EASTING2
4105
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
MATERIAL
Pebbledash
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
NGR2
NZ
Northing
5294
NORTHING2
5293
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Ryhope
Description
House, now two houses. Late C18 incorporating earlier fragments. Pebbledash render with Welsh slate roof. L-plan. The Wilderness – 3 storeys plus extension of 2 storeys. C1930 part-glazed door with semi-circular overlight. Mullioned and casement windows. Right return has shallow bow windows and sashes with some early glass. The Chestnuts – renewed door at right in plain reveals under gabled hood. Sash windows with painted stone sills and glazing bars. Interior of both – some window shutters, some early C19 chimney pieces. At rear of The Wilderness fragments of an older building show in irregular walls and a low bowed truncated beam. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
House, now two houses. Late C18 incorporating earlier fragments (possibly a 16th century manor house with a brewery to the west). Pebbledash render with Welsh slate roof. L-plan. The Wilderness – 3 storeys plus extension of 2 storeys. C1930 part-glazed door with semi-circular overlight. Mullioned and casement windows. Right return has shallow bow windows and sashes with some early glass. At rear of The Wilderness fragments of an older building show in irregular walls and a low bowed truncated beam. The Wilderness later became a hotel said to have been frequented by the Earl of Lumley & Scarborough as a summer retreat from 1790 to 1810. The Chestnuts – renewed door at right in plain reveals under gabled hood. Sash windows with painted stone sills and glazing bars. Interior of both – some window shutters, some early C19 chimney pieces.
Site Name
Cliff Road, The Wilderness and The Chestnuts
Site Type: Specific
Manor House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7134
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/23/257; Sunderland City Council, July 2010, Ryhope Village Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Strategy (Consultation Draft); C. Warhurst, 1994, A Research into the Origins of The Wilderness, Cliff Road, Ryhope (BA Honours Dissertation)
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
4104
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
MATERIAL
Pebbledash
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
5293
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Ryhope
Description
House, now office, with yard wall. Late C18/early C19. Pebble-dashed rendered house with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with rendered and brick chimneys. 2 storeys. 2 steps up to central renewed door under bracketed hood. Projecting stone sills to renewed sash windows with glazing bars. Rendered end chimneys with brick cornices and tapered square yellow pots. Included for group value only. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
House, now office, with yard wall. Late C18/early C19. Pebble-dashed rendered house with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with rendered and brick chimneys. 2 storeys. 2 steps up to central renewed door under bracketed hood. Projecting stone sills to renewed sash windows with glazing bars. Rendered end chimneys with brick cornices and tapered square yellow pots. Included for group value only.
Site Name
14 Cliff Road
Site Type: Specific
House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7133
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/23/256; Sunderland City Council, July 2010, Ryhope Village Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Strategy (Consultation Draft)
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Monument <By Form>
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7130
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3817
EASTING2
3815
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Limestone
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
NGR2
NZ
Northing
5850
NORTHING2
5859
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Southwick
Description
Churchyard walls around three sides, with gates, piers and railings. Walls of the west rebuilt when churchyard truncated for road improvements. Limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar copings and ashlar piers, wrought-iron railings. North and south walls limestone and sandstone rubble with some brick patching and gabled coping. Gates have pierced roundel finials, bud and spike dog bar finials. Most damaged. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Barrier
SITEDESC
Churchyard walls around three sides, with gates, piers and railings. Walls of the west rebuilt when churchyard truncated for road improvements. Limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar copings and ashlar piers, wrought-iron railings. North and south walls limestone and sandstone rubble with some brick patching and gabled coping. Gates have pierced roundel finials, bud and spike dog bar finials. Most damaged.
Site Name
Church Bank, walls gates and railings
Site Type: Specific
Wall
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7132
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/8/284
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Monument <By Form>
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7130
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3820
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
5855
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Southwick
Description
Boiler house retaining and parapet walls to south-east of the Church of Holy Trinity. Probably 1842 by G Jackson. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Elliptical-headed moulded surround to door in high wall with flanking quadrant parapet walls. 4 square piers with stepped gable coping. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Barrier
SITEDESC
Boiler house retaining and parapet walls to south-east of the Church of Holy Trinity. Probably 1842 by G Jackson. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Elliptical-headed moulded surround to door in high wall with flanking quadrant parapet walls. 4 square piers with stepped gable coping.
Site Name
Church Bank, boiler house walls and piers
Site Type: Specific
Wall
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7131
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/8/285
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7130
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3818
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
5856
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Southwick
Description
Parish church. 1842. By George L Jackson. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. Nave with west tower, chancel with north vestry. Early English style, with lancets. Interior – geometric-pattern tiled sanctuary floor. Painted stone altar with paintings of Evangelists in cusped panels. Renewed pulpit and communion rail (using older posts). Arch-braced chancel roof. Queen-post nave roof. Stained glass – east window to Scott family d.1864 and 1882. Chancel has 3 lights to Agnes Collingwood d.1875, and Sarah Thompson d. 1866, with Christ the Good Shepherd, Faith and Hope, signed Alex Gibbs of London. Nave south-east windows also signed Alex Gibbs 1901 to Collingwood rector d.1898. Other nave window of Good Samaritan commemorating Charles Pickersgill, Crown Road shipbuilding yard owner. LISTED GRADE 2
SITEASS
Pevsner - 1842 by George Jackson. Early English, aisless, its west tower with obelisk pinnacles.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Parish church. 1842. By George L Jackson. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roof. Nave with west tower, chancel with north vestry. Early English style, with lancets. Interior – geometric-pattern tiled sanctuary floor. Painted stone altar with paintings of Evangelists in cusped panels. Renewed pulpit and communion rail (using older posts). Arch-braced chancel roof. Queen-post nave roof. Stained glass – east window to Scott family d.1864 and 1882. Chancel has 3 lights to Agnes Collingwood d.1875, and Sarah Thompson d. 1866, with Christ the Good Shepherd, Faith and Hope, signed Alex Gibbs of London. Nave south-east windows also signed Alex Gibbs 1901 to Collingwood rector d.1898. Other nave window of Good Samaritan commemorating Charles Pickersgill, Crown Road shipbuilding yard owner.
Site Name
Church Bank, Church of Holy Trinity
Site Type: Specific
Parish Church
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7130
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/8/283; T. Corfe and G. Milburn, 1984, Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland, p 28
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Monument <By Form>
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3732
EASTING2
3756
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Cast Iron
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
NGR2
NZ
Northing
5602
NORTHING2
5615
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Bishopwearmouth
Description
South entrance and boundary railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery. 1856. By Thomas Moore. Entrance piers and gates flanked by railings extending c200m to west and east along Chester Road. Painted cast-iron piers and railings, ashlar piers. Brick dwarf walls with ashlar coping. Perpendicular style. Open octagonal cast-iron gate piers with brattished decoration with bud finials. Serpentine walls. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Barrier
SITEDESC
South entrance and boundary railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery. 1856. By Thomas Moore. Entrance piers and gates flanked by railings extending c200m to west and east along Chester Road. Painted cast-iron piers and railings, ashlar piers. Brick dwarf walls with ashlar coping. Perpendicular style. Open octagonal cast-iron gate piers with brattished decoration with bud finials. Serpentine walls.
Site Name
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, south gates, piers and railings
Site Type: Specific
Railings
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7129
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/30; GE Milburn and ST Miller, 1988, Sunderland River, Town and People, p 157
T. Corfe, 1983, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, p 15
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3738
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Granite
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
5611
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Bishopwearmouth
Description
Column gravestone and kerbstones. C1890. By Bower and Florence of Aberdeen to Christopher Maling Webster, 1813-1890, of Pallion Hall, and members of his family. Red granite with bronze letters. Kerb with trefoil moulding and trefoil-gabled dwarf piers. A high symbolically-broken column, with square pedestal and carved high relief anchor and rope at base. Long inscription on pedestal records names of Webster family. The first ropeworks for mechanical rope-making were built c1793 in Sunderland by an earlier Webster (HER 2799). LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Tomb
SITEDESC
Column gravestone and kerbstones. C1890. By Bower and Florence of Aberdeen to Christopher Maling Webster, 1813-1890, of Pallion Hall, and members of his family. Red granite with bronze letters. Kerb with trefoil moulding and trefoil-gabled dwarf piers. A high symbolically-broken column, with square pedestal and carved high relief anchor and rope at base. Long inscription on pedestal records names of Webster family. The first ropeworks for mechanical rope-making were built c1793 in Sunderland by an earlier Webster (HER 2799).
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/36
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Commemorative
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Rachel Grahame
CONDITION
Good
Crossref
17792
DAY1
06
DAY2
09
District
Sunderland
Easting
39914
Grid ref figure
10
LANDUSE
Monument Display
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Marble
MONTH1
06
MONTH2
02
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
56697
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
White marble memorial to 183 children who died in the Victoria Hall, Toward Road, Sunderland on 16th June 1883. It was erected inside a glass and ironwork structure in Mowbray Park opposite the scene of the tragedy. In 1934 the memorial was removed to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery where it was listed in 1994. In 2000 the statue was restored and replaced in Mowbray Park (a Grade II-registered park and garden; National Heritage List for England 1001320) within a new protective canopy. After this disaster legislation was passed making the provision of adequate and outward-opening exits at all places of entertainment compulsory.
The National Heritage List was amended on 10/09/21 and reads:
Memorial to the Victoria Hall Disaster, 1884 by sculptor W G Brooker.
MATERIALS: a white marble statue on a grey stone pedestal.
DESCRIPTION: situated within the north-east part of Mowbray Park. A corniced pedestal has a stepped base with a wreath carved onto the front dado face. It bears an expressive, life-size figure of a robed and seated grieving mother holding a dead child across her left knee. The figure, with arm and head thrown back in despair is derived from the classical figure of Niobe mourning her dead children. The inscription on the front face of the pedestal, beneath the carved wreath reads: ERECTED/TO COMMEMORATE/ THE CALAMITY WHICH TOOK PLACE/IN THE VICTORIA HALL, SUNDERLAND/ON SATURDAY 16 JUNE 1883/BY WHICH 183 CHILDREN LOST THEIR LIVES.
LISTED GRADE 2
SITEASS
Child's feet broken off and hand chipped, generally weathered and dirty, brown and grey lichen growth {Usherwood, Beach and Morris 2000}.
Site Type: Broad
Commemorative Monument
SITEDESC
White marble memorial to 183 children who died in the Victoria Hall, Toward Road, Sunderland on 16th June 1883. It was erected inside a glass and ironwork structure in Mowbray Park opposite the scene of the tragedy. In 1934 the memorial was removed to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery where it was listed in 1994. In 2000 the statue was restored and replaced in Mowbray Park (a Grade II-registered park and garden; National Heritage List for England 1001320) within a new protective canopy. After this disaster legislation was passed making the provision of adequate and outward-opening exits at all places of entertainment compulsory.
The National Heritage List was amended on 10/09/21 and reads:
Memorial to the Victoria Hall Disaster, 1884 by sculptor W G Brooker.
MATERIALS: a white marble statue on a grey stone pedestal.
DESCRIPTION: situated within the north-east part of Mowbray Park. A corniced pedestal has a stepped base with a wreath carved onto the front dado face. It bears an expressive, life-size figure of a robed and seated grieving mother holding a dead child across her left knee. The figure, with arm and head thrown back in despair is derived from the classical figure of Niobe mourning her dead children. The inscription on the front face of the pedestal, beneath the carved wreath reads: ERECTED/TO COMMEMORATE/ THE CALAMITY WHICH TOOK PLACE/IN THE VICTORIA HALL, SUNDERLAND/ON SATURDAY 16 JUNE 1883/BY WHICH 183 CHILDREN LOST THEIR LIVES.
Site Name
Mowbray Park, Victoria Hall Disaster Memorial
Site Type: Specific
Commemorative Monument
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7127
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/39; GE Milburn and ST Miller, 1988, Sunderland River, Town and People, pp 130-131; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 183-5; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1207911
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
YEAR2
2023
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3740
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Limestone
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
5610
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Bishopwearmouth
Description
Urn and column headstone. C1879 by Roseberry to Isabella Duncan Vaux, died 1879, and other members of the Vaux family. Ashlar limestone, possibly marble. Stepped base to corniced plinth and tall tapered square column with low relief roses carved on east face above principal inscription. Urn finial. The Vaux family were prominent local brewers. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Grave Marker
SITEDESC
Urn and column headstone. C1879 by Roseberry to Isabella Duncan Vaux, died 1879, and other members of the Vaux family. Ashlar limestone, possibly marble. Stepped base to corniced plinth and tall tapered square column with low relief roses carved on east face above principal inscription. Urn finial. The Vaux family were prominent local brewers.
Site Name
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, Vaux tomb
Site Type: Specific
Gravestone
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7126
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/35