The Causeway, RC Church of St. Benet
The Causeway, RC Church of St. Benet
HER Number
9708
District
Sunderland
Site Name
The Causeway, RC Church of St. Benet
Place
Monkwearmouth
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
Site Type: Specific
Roman Catholic Church
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
A large town church of the 1880s by Dunn, Hansom & Dunn, extended in 1909. From 1900 the parish was served by the Redemptorist Order, for whom a monastery was built from designs by Charles Walker.
The red brick exterior of the church is relatively austere, even forbidding in character. By contrast, the interior is very fine, with good stone carving by Boulton of Cheltenham, an intact highly enriched high altar given by C. Swinburne, and timber furnishings of high quality.
The red brick exterior of the church is relatively austere, even forbidding in character. By contrast, the interior is very fine, with good stone carving by Boulton of Cheltenham, an intact highly enriched high altar given by C. Swinburne, and timber furnishings of high quality.
Easting
439920
Northing
557960
Grid Reference
NZ439920557960
Sources
N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 467; http://taking-stock.org.uk/Home/Dioceses/Diocese-of-Hexham-Newcastle/Sunderland-St-Benet