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
438170
EASTING2
3815
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Limestone
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
NGR2
NZ
Northing
558500
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
438200
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
558550
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
438180
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Sandstone
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
558560
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
437320
EASTING2
3756
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Cast Iron
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
NGR2
NZ
Northing
556020
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
437380
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Granite
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
556110
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
439914
Grid ref figure
10
LANDUSE
Monument Display
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Marble
MONTH1
6
MONTH2
2
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
556697
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
437400
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Limestone
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
556100
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
SURVIVAL
100%
YEAR1
2005
English, British
Class
Religious Ritual and Funerary
COMP1
Jennifer Morrison
DAY1
06
District
Sunderland
Easting
437390
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Granite
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
556080
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Place
Bishopwearmouth
Description
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
437390
Grid ref figure
8
Map Sheet
NZ35NE
MATERIAL
Granite
MONTH1
6
Grid Reference
NZ
Northing
556100
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.