Parish church 1912 by CA Clayton Greene. Snecked tooled limestone with ashlar plinth and dressings. Lakeland slate roof with stone copings. Aisled chancel with undercroft, north vestry with organ chamber over, aisled nave, west vestibule and porch. Art Nouveau modification of Tudor style.
Exterior – stone mullioned windows, octagonal stair turrets at sides. Arched doors at wesr end.
Interior – large nave piers to allow aisles underneath (like Church of St. Andrew, Roker). Very wide nave. Kingpost roof trusses and tie beam over windows. Panelled sanctuary with high quality oak furnishings. Small rooms with half-glazed screens flank the western entrance. West passage has panelled doors with patterned glazed strips of bevelled glass. Groined ceiling. Stained glass in east window by Marion D Grant. Watrercolour hanging in west passage shows church as planned, with octagonal tower with needle spire. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Parish church 1912 by CA Clayton Greene. Snecked tooled limestone with ashlar plinth and dressings. Lakeland slate roof with stone copings. Aisled chancel with undercroft, north vestry with organ chamber over, aisled nave, west vestibule and porch. Art Nouveau modification of Tudor style.
Exterior – stone mullioned windows, octagonal stair turrets at sides. Arched doors at wesr end.
Interior – large nave piers to allow aisles underneath (like Church of St. Andrew, Roker). Very wide nave. Kingpost roof trusses and tie beam over windows. Panelled sanctuary with high quality oak furnishings. Small rooms with half-glazed screens flank the western entrance. West passage has panelled doors with patterned glazed strips of bevelled glass. Groined ceiling. Stained glass in east window by Marion D Grant. Watrercolour hanging in west passage shows church as planned, with octagonal tower with needle spire {1}; 1912 by C.A. Clayton Greene. Cruciform in Art-Nouveau Tudor style. Tall wide nave, with half-octagonal buttresses grouped at the corners. Transepts and short chancel with east undercroft. Low passage aisles and crossing arches (the crossing tower was never built) recall St. Andrew, Roker. Fine woodwork and stained glass by D. Marion Grant, 1953 {2}.
Site Name
Bishopwearmouth, Saint Gabriel’s Avenue, Church of St.Gabriel
Site Type: Specific
Parish Church
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7195
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/4/206; T. Corfe and G. Milburn, 1984, Buildings and Beliefs – Sunderland, p 33; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 461
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7193
DAY1
07
District
Sunderland
Easting
439890
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
556160
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
Terrace of 7 houses. C1860. English garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys. Architraves to doors of Sunderland type. Elaborate brackets to entablatures. Ground floor has canted bay windows. First floor mostly sashes, some renewed. No. 21 has lost door brackets. Round-headed windows in gabled dormers. Ridge chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Terrace
SITEDESC
Terrace of 7 houses. C1860. English garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar dressings. Welsh slate roofs. 2 storeys. Architraves to doors of Sunderland type. Elaborate brackets to entablatures. Ground floor has canted bay windows. First floor mostly sashes, some renewed. No. 21 has lost door brackets. Round-headed windows in gabled dormers. Ridge chimneys.
Site Name
17-23 Saint Bede’s Terrace
Site Type: Specific
Terrace
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7194
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/22/205
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7194
DAY1
07
District
Sunderland
Easting
439860
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
556260
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Sunderland
Description
Terrace of 16 houses, c1854. Layout by GA Middlemiss. For AJ Moore. 2 storeys, most with basement. Garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar dressings. Rendered left return to Park Road. Welsh slate roof. Brick chimneys. Iron handrails, some original on steps of Nos. 4-16. Doorcases have fluted Corinthian columns. Sunderland-type doors, panelled to fold back as reveals to inner doors. Canted bay window on ground floor. Upper windows – some sashes, some renewed. Roof has some gabled dormers with canted bay windows, some renewed glass and inserted roof lights. Stone lintels and sills. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Terrace
SITEDESC
Terrace of 16 houses, c1854. Layout by GA Middlemiss. For AJ Moore. 2 storeys, most with basement. Garden wall bond brick with painted ashlar dressings. Rendered left return to Park Road. Welsh slate roof. Brick chimneys. Iron handrails, some original on steps of Nos. 4-16. Doorcases have fluted Corinthian columns. Sunderland-type doors, panelled to fold back as reveals to inner doors. Canted bay window on ground floor. Upper windows – some sashes, some renewed. Roof has some gabled dormers with canted bay windows, some renewed glass and inserted roof lights. Stone lintels and sills.
Site Name
1-16 Saint Bede’s Terrace
Site Type: Specific
Terrace
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7193
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/22/204; T. Corfe, 1983, The Buildings of Sunderland 1814-1914, p 14
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
07
District
Sunderland
Easting
440990
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ45SW
MATERIAL
Limestone
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
553030
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Ryhope
Description
Parish church. 1868-73 by TC Ebdy. Chancel and north aisle 1920. First build rock-faced snecked limestone with rock-faced sandstone quoins and ashlar dressings. Second build sandstone ashlar. Welsh slate roof first build, Lakeland slate second build.
Exterior – lancet windows, 3-light window in south transept. 3-stage tower with pointed arch over double panelled door. Clock. Octagonal stair turret.
Interior – arch-braced collar and kingpost roof. Glass includes high quality west window to WN Taylor d.1875, with Old Testament figures. South aisle west end window has high quality glass by Bacon Bros (signed 3 bees and triangle). Yellow aisle second window is a memorial with a portrait figure of Lieut. Bell, DLI, d1917, signed J Eadie Reed.
Painted carved reredos, octagonal stone font. LISTED GRADE 2
SITEASS
Pevsner - 1870 by T.C. Ebdy. A big ambitious church with a deliberately original south tower with stair-turret and pyramid roof. The porch is in the tower. Doorway with the grossest mouldings, also deliberately original. Chancel and north aisle of 1920.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Parish church. 1868-73 by TC Ebdy. Chancel and north aisle 1920. First build rock-faced snecked limestone with rock-faced sandstone quoins and ashlar dressings. Second build sandstone ashlar. Welsh slate roof first build, Lakeland slate second build.
Exterior – lancet windows, 3-light window in south transept. 3-stage tower with pointed arch over double panelled door. Clock. Octagonal stair turret.
Interior – arch-braced collar and kingpost roof. Glass includes high quality west window to WN Taylor d.1875, with Old Testament figures. South aisle west end window has high quality glass by Bacon Bros (signed 3 bees and triangle). Yellow aisle second window is a memorial with a portrait figure of Lieut. Bell, DLI, d1917, signed J Eadie Reed.
Painted carved reredos, octagonal stone font {1}. 1870 by T.C. Ebdy. A big ambitious church with a deliberately original south tower with stair-turret and pyramidal roof. The porch is in the tower. Doorway with the grossest mouldings also deliberately original. Chancel and north aisle of 1920 {2}. Simplified from its original design to save money but is still ambitious and innovative. The coping stones of the churchyard wall are salvaged stone sleeper blocks taken from the colliery railway.
Site Name
Ryhope, Ryhope Street South, Church of St. Paul
Site Type: Specific
Parish Church
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7192
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/7/259; N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 464; Sunderland City Council, July 2010, Ryhope Village Conservation Area Character Appraisal and Management Strategy (Consultation Draft)
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
AREA_STAT
Conservation Area
Class
Domestic
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
07
District
Sunderland
Easting
439790
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
555970
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Place
Sunderland
Description
House, now a home for the elderly. C1830 with late C19/early C20 additions. Incorporates ?C18 house. Garden wall bond brick with ashlar dressings. Lakeland slate roof. Earlier house rear wing is rendered. 3 storeys. Left tower is an addition. Original front has 4-panelled door and overlight. Stone lintels and sills to sash windows. Wooden porch. At rear a Venetian stair window.
Interior – Ionic screen in entrance hall, doors have architraves. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
House
SITEDESC
House, now a home for the elderly. C1830 with late C19/early C20 additions. Incorporates ?C18 house. Garden wall bond brick with ashlar dressings. Lakeland slate roof. Earlier house rear wing is rendered. 3 storeys. Left tower is an addition. Original front has 4-panelled door and overlight. Stone lintels and sills to sash windows. Wooden porch. At rear a Venetian stair window.
Interior – Ionic screen in entrance hall, doors have architraves
Site Name
West Hendon House, Ryhope Road
Site Type: Specific
House
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7191
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/16/199
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Monument <By Form>
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7188, 7189
DAY1
07
District
Sunderland
Easting
440780
EASTING2
4088
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ45SW
MATERIAL
Limestone
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
NGR2
NZ
Northing
554570
NORTHING2
5433
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Hendon
Description
C1858. Snecked limestone walls with ashlar coping. Tall chamfered square ashlar piers to vehicle and pedestrian entrances. Blank shields in panels on piers. Wrought-iron gates and railings. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Barrier
SITEDESC
C1858. Snecked limestone walls with ashlar coping. Tall chamfered square ashlar piers to vehicle and pedestrian entrances. Blank shields in panels on piers. Wrought-iron gates and railings.
Site Name
Hendon, Ryhope Road, gates piers and railings
Site Type: Specific
Wall
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7190
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/7/193
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7188, 7190
DAY1
07
District
Sunderland
Easting
440800
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ45SW
MATERIAL
Limestone
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
554470
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Hendon
Description
Lodge and office to municipal cemetery. c1858. Snecked limestone with sandstone ashlar dressings and wrought-iron door fittings. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and ashlar chimneys. H plan with right wing longer due to extension and porch. Gothic style. One storey. Gabled porch with boarded door with elaborate hinges and low-pointed arch head. Gable has fleur-de-lys finial. Canted bay windows. Renewed sash windows. Stone lintels and sills. Bell-cote. Octagonal chimneys. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Cemetery Lodge
SITEDESC
Lodge and office to municipal cemetery. c1858. Snecked limestone with sandstone ashlar dressings and wrought-iron door fittings. Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and ashlar chimneys. H plan with right wing longer due to extension and porch. Gothic style. One storey. Gabled porch with boarded door with elaborate hinges and low-pointed arch head. Gable has fleur-de-lys finial. Canted bay windows. Renewed sash windows. Stone lintels and sills. Bell-cote. Octagonal chimneys.
Site Name
Sunderland Cemetery, South Lodge
Site Type: Specific
Cemetery Lodge
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7189
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/7/195
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
Crossref
7189, 7190
DAY1
07
District
Sunderland
Easting
440720
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ45SW
MATERIAL
Limestone
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
554410
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Place
Hendon
Description
Chapel in municipal cemetery. c1858. Snecked limestone with ashalr plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Aisled nave with north-east tower porch. Decorated style with buttresses and tracery. Nave windows partly blocked. Arched west door. North-east open-arched porch has triangular windows. Octagonal second stage with gabled canopies over blocked windows. Spire removed. Out of use at time of survey. LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Chapel in municipal cemetery. c1858. Snecked limestone with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings. Aisled nave with north-east tower porch. Decorated style with buttresses and tracery. Nave windows partly blocked. Arched west door. North-east open-arched porch has triangular windows. Octagonal second stage with gabled canopies over blocked windows. Spire removed. Out of use at time of survey.
Site Name
Hendon, Ryhope Road, Sunderland Cemetery, South Chapel
Site Type: Specific
Cemetery Chapel
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7188
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/7/197
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Clare Henderson
DAY1
07
DAY2
11
District
Sunderland
Easting
439958
Grid ref figure
10
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Brick
MONTH1
6
MONTH2
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
555813
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Sunderland
Description
Synagogue. 1928, altered 1968. Designed by Marcus K Glass. Red brick with artificial stone dressings. Plain tile roof. West entrance façade has central round arch. Inside two central round-headed doorways with 3 octagonal painted stone half-columns. Panelled double doors with large fanlights above with stained glass including stars. Above a mosaic band inscribed with a Hebrew text. Above that a large round-headed window with tracery and stained glass. Above main arch a stone plaque with Hebrew inscription. Either side octagonal towers with small round-headed windows. Tall round-headed windows with original metal casements above. The towers have stone parapets. Side wings decorated with a band of zig-zag brickwork.
Interior – survives largely intact with only a bimah added centrally in 1968. Entrance lobby has original doors and staircases with iron balustrades and wooden hand rails. Synagogue has 3 galleries upstairs to accommodate women, with original wooden seating and panelled fronts supported on iron columns. East end raised up 6 steps with Ark decorated with painted and gilded wooden columned surround. Central octagonal wooden desk with carved and painted decoration. All windows have fine and bright stained glass with abstract patterns and stars. Parish room in basement retains original stage and iron columns supporting cross beams.
The foundation stone was laid on 14 March 1928 and the building opened on 9 December 1928. It cost £11,000. LISTED GRADE 2
SITEASS
Pevsner - 1928 by Glass of Newcastle, in a vigorous and decorative Byzantine style.
Site Type: Broad
Place of Worship
SITEDESC
Synagogue. 1928, altered 1968. Designed by Marcus K Glass. Red brick with artificial stone dressings. Plain tile roof. West entrance façade has central round arch. Inside two central round-headed doorways with 3 octagonal painted stone half-columns. Panelled double doors with large fanlights above with stained glass including stars. Above a mosaic band inscribed with a Hebrew text. Above that a large round-headed window with tracery and stained glass. Above main arch a stone plaque with Hebrew inscription. Either side octagonal towers with small round-headed windows. Tall round-headed windows with original metal casements above. The towers have stone parapets. Side wings decorated with a band of zig-zag brickwork.
Interior – survives largely intact with only a bimah added centrally in 1968. Entrance lobby has original doors and staircases with iron balustrades and wooden hand rails. Synagogue has 3 galleries upstairs to accommodate women, with original wooden seating and panelled fronts supported on iron columns. East end raised up 6 steps with Ark decorated with painted and gilded wooden columned surround. Central octagonal wooden desk with carved and painted decoration. All windows have fine and bright stained glass with abstract patterns and stars. Parish room in basement retains original stage and iron columns supporting cross beams. The foundation stone was laid on 14 March 1928 and the building opened on 9 December 1928. It cost £11,000. The inscribed stones from the front of the earlier synagogue in Villiers Street were brought here when it was demolished. The son and grandson of founder member Michael Cohen and Joseph Landau were photographed with the stones together with the contractor, the stones are inscribed 'Beth Hamedresh' and the year of building. The photo may have been in the Jewish Chronicle and/or the Sunderland Echo. The stones are now lost - they may be buried in the grounds of the synagogue and school. The Jewish community is keen to find them.
Site Name
Ryhope Road, Sunderland Synagogue
Site Type: Specific
Synagogue
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7187
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/7/10018; Sharman Kadish, 2006, Jewish Heritage in England - Architectural Guide, pages 182-185; personal comment, Jon Welsh, 8 Sept 2013
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
YEAR2
2021
English, British
Class
Recreational
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
COMP2
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
07
DAY2
24
District
Sunderland
Easting
440400
Grid ref figure
6
Map Sheet
NZ45SW
MATERIAL
Timber
MONTH1
6
MONTH2
3
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
553100
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966
Place
Ryhope
Description
Pigeon cree C20. Weatherboarded with monopitch roof. At present painted red, black and white. Single storey. 5 windows with 3 doors in-between. Small extension to left. Above the central door is a small gable with a row of upstanding perches all along the front. Lynn Pearson - probably the most celebrated pigeon loft in Britain. Located on an allotment behind the Blue Bell Inn on Back Ryhope Street. The cree was built in 1955 by Maurice Surtees and his brother William, using timber taken from colliery cottages that were being demolished nearby. It is painted red, white and blue. The birds return through sliding doors. There are 'spikes' (like a picket fence) on the roof to deter birds from landing on the roof rather than heading straight inside. The cree was the first and thus far only cree to be listed in 1998. Meercat Films made a film about the cree in 2008 called 'The Homing Instinct'.LISTED GRADE 2
Site Type: Broad
Animal House
SITEDESC
Pigeon cree C20. Weatherboarded with monopitch roof. At present painted red, black and white. Single storey. 5 windows with 3 doors in-between. Small extension to left. Above the central door is a small gable with a row of upstanding perches all along the front. Lynn Pearson - probably the most celebrated pigeon loft in Britain. Located on an allotment behind the Blue Bell Inn on Back Ryhope Street. The cree was built in 1955 by Maurice Surtees and his brother William, using timber taken from colliery cottages that were being demolished nearby. It is painted red, white and blue. The birds return through sliding doors. There are 'spikes' (like a picket fence) on the roof to deter birds from landing on the roof rather than heading straight inside. The cree was the first and thus far only cree to be listed in 1998. In December 2007 the allotment holders were offered compensation to move by a prospective developer who wished to build houses on the site. The allotment holders refused. The issue was debated in the House of Commons. The developer accepted defeat in 2008. Meercat Films made a film about it in 2008 called 'The Homing Instinct'.
Site Name
Western Hill, pigeon cree
Site Type: Specific
Pigeon Cree
SITE_STAT
Listed Building Grade II
HER Number
7186
Form of Evidence
Structure
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 920-1/7/10015; Lynn Pearson, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - charting the heritage of people at play, pp 154-155