Springwell, Durham Road, RC Church Immaculate Heart of Mary
Springwell, Durham Road, RC Church Immaculate Heart of Mary
HER Number
9701
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Springwell, Durham Road, RC Church Immaculate Heart of Mary
Place
Springwell
Map Sheet
NZ35SE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Roman Catholic Church
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
The church is of reinforced concrete portal frame construction, externally clad with russet brown facing brick, roofed with Westmorland slates and with metal windows with reconstituted stone, brick or creased tile surrounds. On plan it consists of a wide aisleless nave and narrower sanctuary. Two projections at the west end, that on the north side originally housing a baptistery. A Lady Chapel gives off the south side of the sanctuary and sacristies give off the north side.
Easting
437320
Northing
554960
Grid Reference
NZ437320554960
Sources
N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 463; http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Hexham-Newcastle/Sunderland-Immaculate-Heart-of-Mary