Cross headstone and kerbstone. C1911 to Margaret (1849-1911), wife of Henneson Taylor. Granite. Cross shaft approx 4m high in medieval style. Tapered high pedestal and taperedshaft support coped cross, all parts richly carved in interlace and vine patterns. Cross has central boss, and arms linked by secondary ring. Enclosing kerbstone has low rounded coping and corner and intermediate dwarf piers. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Grave Marker
SITEDESC
Cross headstone and kerbstone. C1911 to Margaret (1849-1911), wife of Henneson Taylor. Granite. Cross shaft approx. 4m high in medieval style. Tapered high pedestal and taperedshaft support coped cross, all parts richly carved in interlace and vine patterns. Cross has central boss, and arms linked by secondary ring. Enclosing kerbstone has low rounded coping and corner and intermediate dwarf piers.
Site Name
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, Taylor tomb
Site Type: Specific
Gravestone
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7125
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/38
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3739
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Granite
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
5610
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Bishopwearmouth
Description
Chest tomb with kerbstone. To John Bolam, 1815-1885, and members of his family. Polished red granite. Kerb with trefoil roll moulding and trefoil- gabled angle dwarf piers. Chamfered plinth to chest with triglyph frieze with patera and dentilled cornice. Inscriptions on sides. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Tomb
SITEDESC
Chest tomb with kerbstone. To John Bolam, 1815-1885, and members of his family. Polished red granite. Kerb with trefoil roll moulding and trefoil- gabled angle dwarf piers. Chamfered plinth to chest with triglyph frieze with patera and dentilled cornice. Inscriptions on sides.
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/37
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3754
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
5615
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Bishopwearmouth
Description
Lodge at south entrance to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery. 1856. By Thomas Moore. English garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings. Welsh slate roof with fishscale decoration, stone gable copings. Cast-iron cresting and brick and ashlar chimneys. T-plan with central gabled porch with boarded door in high pointed arch. One storey. Mullioned windows. Renewed window in cross wing with fler-de-lys finial on dripmould in gable peak. Bay window to Chester Road. 2 ridge chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Cemetery Lodge
SITEDESC
Lodge at south entrance to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery. 1856. By Thomas Moore. English garden wall bond brick (5 and one) with ashlar plinth, quoins and dressings. Welsh slate roof with fishscale decoration, stone gable copings. Cast-iron cresting and brick and ashlar chimneys. T-plan with central gabled porch with boarded door in high pointed arch. One storey. Mullioned windows. Renewed window in cross wing with fler-de-lys finial on dripmould in gable peak. Bay window to Chester Road. 2 ridge chimneys.
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/31; 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
CONDITION
Poor
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3736
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
5625
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Bishopwearmouth
Description
Chapel, one of an identical pair for Anglican and Nonconformist use in municipal cemetery, 1856. By Thomas Moore. Decorated style. Brick with ashlar plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof with fishscale decoration and ashlar gable copings. Octagonal chapel. Lancet windows. West porch. Octagonal bellcote with two tiers of arcades and stone spirelets. Most openings blocked and building out of use at time of survey. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Chapel, one of an identical pair for Anglican and Nonconformist use in municipal cemetery, 1856. By Thomas Moore. Decorated style. Brick with ashlar plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof with fishscale decoration and ashlar gable copings. Octagonal chapel. Lancet windows. West porch. Octagonal bellcote with two tiers of arcades and stone spirelets. Most openings blocked and building out of use at time of survey.
Site Name
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, South Chapel
Site Type: Specific
Cemetery Chapel
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7122
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/32; 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
3741
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
5654
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Bishopwearmouth
Description
Municipal cemetery chapel, originally Roman Catholic but now used by all denominations. Possibly 1856 by Thomas Moore. Brick with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with bands of Lakeland slate. Terracotta ridge cresting. Ashlar bellcote and gable copings. Polygonal apse. Gabled porch has double boarded doors. Cross finial. Lancets. Triple bellcote with high pyramidal spirelet. Canopy to eroded statue. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Municipal cemetery chapel, originally Roman Catholic but now used by all denominations. Possibly 1856 by Thomas Moore. Brick with ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roof with bands of Lakeland slate. Terracotta ridge cresting. Ashlar bellcote and gable copings. Polygonal apse. Gabled porch has double boarded doors. Cross finial. Lancets. Triple bellcote with high pyramidal spirelet. Canopy to eroded statue.
Site Name
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, North Chapel
Site Type: Specific
Cemetery Chapel
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7121
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/34
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
CONDITION
Destroyed
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3732
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
5638
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Bishopwearmouth
Description
Chapel, one of identical pair for Anglican and Nonconformist use in municipal cemetery, 1856. By Thomas Moore. Decorated style. Brick with ashlar plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof with fishscale decoration and ashlar gable copings. Octagonal chapel. Lancet windows. West porch. Octagonal bellcote with two tiers of arcades and stone spirelets. Most openings blocked and building out of use at time of survey. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Chapel, one of identical pair for Anglican and Nonconformist use in municipal cemetery, 1856. By Thomas Moore. Decorated style. Brick with ashlar plinth and dressings. Welsh slate roof with fishscale decoration and ashlar gable copings. Octagonal chapel. Lancet windows. West porch. Octagonal bellcote with two tiers of arcades and stone spirelets. Most openings blocked and building out of use at time of survey.
Site Name
Bishopwearmouth Cemetery, Chester Road, central chapel
Site Type: Specific
Cemetery Chapel
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7120
Form of Evidence
Demolished Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/33; 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
1-19%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
5254
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3780
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Cast Iron
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
5567
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
Bandstand. Late C19. Cast iron columns, brick and ashlar base, felt covered roof. Octagonal base with bull-nosed coping. Slender columns support ribbed ogee roof. Decorative spandrels to frieze set back on brackets. Scrolled finial. Railings renewed. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Bandstand
SITEDESC
Bandstand. Late C19. Cast iron columns, brick and ashlar base, felt covered roof. Octagonal base with bull-nosed coping. Slender columns support ribbed ogee roof. Decorative spandrels to frieze set back on brackets. Scrolled finial. Railings renewed.
Site Name
Barnes Park, bandstand
Site Type: Specific
Bandstand
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7118
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/14; Archaeo-Environment Ltd., 2008, Barnes Park, Sunderland - Archaeological Assessment
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Monument <By Form>
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7112
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3952
EASTING2
3959
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
NGR2
NZ
Northing
5589
NORTHING2
5585
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
Walls and gates enclosing grounds of Methodist church. C1888. By R Curwen. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Wrought-iron gates. Low walls with ashlar coping from which railings have been removed, interrupted by wide piers. Gates have scrolled spandrels and decoration, spear-headed dog bars and intermediate bars and twisted finials. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Barrier
SITEDESC
Walls and gates enclosing grounds of Methodist church. C1888. By R Curwen. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings. Wrought-iron gates. Low walls with ashlar coping from which railings have been removed, interrupted by wide piers. Gates have scrolled spandrels and decoration, spear-headed dog bars and intermediate bars and twisted finials.
Site Name
Ashbrooke Crescent, churchyard walls and gates
Site Type: Specific
Wall
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7114
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/16/8; G. Milburn et al, 1988, St John’s, Ashbrooke 1888-1988, pp 18-19
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7112
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3955
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
5584
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
Caretaker’s house to Methodist Church of St. John. C1896. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. Lakeland slate roof with ashlar copings. 2 storeys. Central boarded door with overlight and small side lights in stone surround. Stone lintels and mullions. Sash windows. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
Caretaker’s house to Methodist Church of St. John. C1896. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. Lakeland slate roof with ashlar copings. 2 storeys. Central boarded door with overlight and small side lights in stone surround. Stone lintels and mullions. Sash windows.
Site Name
Church House, Ashbrooke Crescent
Site Type: Specific
House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7113
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/16/8; T. Corfe and G. Milburn, 1984, Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland, p 18
G. Milburn et al, 1988, St John’s, Ashbrooke 1888-1988, pp 18-19
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7113, 7114
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
3954
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
06
Grid Reference
NZ
NMRNUMBER
NZ 35 NE 203
Northing
5587
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
Wesleyan Methodist church with hall attached. 1887-8 and hall c1907 by Robert Curwen; main contractors J.H. Thorp and sons, Leeds. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar sandstone dressings and interior. Prudhoe stone for tower and Denwick for interior. Lakeland slate roof. Early English style. Meeting rooms in undercroft. Hall has central round stair tower. Octagonal stone spire.
Interior – plaster and ashlar. Hammer beam roof. High quality furnishings throughout include pulpit and reading desk on stone pedestals, with remarkable pulpit handrail of brass in form of serpent. Brass and cast-iron communion rail with sunflower and leaf patterns. Choir pews with carved ends. Small brightly coloured lancet of 1888 in north transept to son, aged 9 of first minister. East window commemorating T.C. Squance (d.1897), with scenes from life of Christ. High quality west window to J.W. Taylor with scenes of Crucifixion across all lights. LISTED GRADE 2
SITEASS
Pevsner - 1887-8 by Robert Curwen. Stone, Gothic, with large west and east windows and a north tower with spire, very Anglican in style and layout, though the liturgical east is west. Linked to the church hall in a similar style and with a cottage adjoining.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Wesleyan Methodist church with hall attached. 1887-8 and hall c1907 by Robert Curwen; main contractors J.H. Thorp and sons, Leeds. Rock-faced sandstone with ashlar sandstone dressings and interior. Prudhoe stone for tower and Denwick for interior. Lakeland slate roof. Early English style. Meeting rooms in undercroft. Hall has central round stair tower. Octagonal stone spire. Interior – plaster and ashlar. Hammer beam roof. High quality furnishings throughout include pulpit and reading desk on stone pedestals, with remarkable pulpit handrail of brass in form of serpent. Brass and cast-iron communion rail with sunflower and leaf patterns. Choir pews with carved ends. Small brightly coloured lancet of 1888 in north transept to son, aged 9 of first minister. East window commemorating T.C. Squance (d.1897), with scenes from life of Christ. High quality west window to J.W. Taylor with scenes of Crucifixion across all lights {1}. 1887-8 by Robert Curwen. Stone, Gothic, with large west and east windows and a north tower with spire, very Anglican in style and layout, though the liturgical east is west. Linked to the church hall in a similar style and with a cottage adjoining {2}. This church has Sunderland's tallest steeple. Victorian gas lights. Interesting crypt.
Site Name
Ashbrooke Crescent, Church of St. John
Site Type: Specific
Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7112
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/16/7; T. Corfe and G. Milburn, 1984, Buildings and Beliefs: Sunderland, p 18
G. Milburn et al, 1988, St John’s, Ashbrooke 1888-1988, pp 16-35; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 452