Balustrade on steps from Salisbury Street to Toward Road. Mid C19. Wrought - iron. Plain stick balustrades and slender - tapered newels, with bases clasped by acanthus foliage and simplified foliage to capitals, support plain band handrails on N side of lower flight and on both sides of upper 2 flights of steps.

Forecourt and yard walls, piers and railings to Trafalgar Square Almhouses (qv). 1840 for the Trustees of the Muster Roll. Pebbledashed front wall; rubble yard wall at left, with brick coping and brick yard wall at right with ashlar door lintel and coping; rendered gate piers, ashlar piers at outer ends of railings and brick pier to right brick wall. Low front walls, now pebbledashed, with elliptical - section stone coping, end in 4 tall square stone piers which have plinth, cornice and blocking course. To left, a rubble wall with 20th century gabled brick coping; to right, a brick wall with flat stone coping ends in tall square pier linking it to wall of yard of caretaker's cottage of Holy Trinity (qv). In this right wall a central projection has a flat stone lintel over a blocked door. Gates and railings renewed.

Forecourt wall and railings in front of left (1827) part of the former Donnison School (qv). These link the wall breaking forward from the left end of the cottage with the projecting right section of the former school. Brick wall, now rendered, with elliptical - section stone coping; wrought - iron railings with cast - iron finials to principals. Spike - headed railings and dogbars; two uprights joined to form gate piers with cast - iron urn finials.

Church forecourt wall with gate piers. Brick wall with stone coping. Ashlar piers. C1719. Low wall, railings renewed, those in southern section of19th century type. Low square rusticated corniced piers.

In 1841 a sales notice for Wilkinson's brewery which was capable of 40 half-barrels was published.

Gates, piers and railings to boys' orphanage (qv). Dated 1861 in inscription on pier BOYS ORPHANAGE SUNDERLAND 1861. Rendered stone piers, brick walls with rendered stone coping, wrought - iron gates and railings. 4 tall square piers, with plinths, cornices, and stepped pyramidal coping, form entrances from N and S ends of wall to W of former orphanage. Gates with plain dogbars below central rail have intertwined fish finials. Similar finials to railings set in brick wall with segmental coping which has pilasters at intervals below clustered railings forming open piers.

Former boy's orphanage. 1858. By Childs and Lucas, construction supervised by Thomas Moore. Brick with ashlar plinth and dressings, Welsh slate roof. Irregular plan. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and 3 - stage tower. 4:2:1:3 windows. All surrounds stone. Tower projects with 2 windows and has open porch with steps to paired keyed arches with impost string, roundel in soffit, first floor sill string to 4 - pane sashes with segment heads to keyed lugged architraves. Impost string to third stage triple light with keyed round head, eaves band and bracketed cornice, low - pitched pyramidal roof, returns have single arch, one lugged window, and paired round - headed windows. 4 bays to left of tower have keyed round heads on impost string to ground floor sashes, plain below and with radiating glazing bars above, with projecting stone sills. First - floor sashes with vertical glazing bars have lugged architraves and segmental heads with long keystones. Modillioned eaves entablature. To right of tower one wide bay has renewed wide ground - floor window below bracketed cornice, perhaps former balcony, and lugged surround to first - floor, and on first floor single and paired windows with renewed glazing in stone surrounds. Hipped roofs with ashlar corniced ridge chimneys. (Milburn and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People: Sunderland: 1988-: 162). The building was recorded by Tyne and Wear Museums Archaeology in 2011 ahead of its conversion. Since its construction (1859-1860) the building has been extended mainly to the rear. The majority of the extension occurred by 1897. After this date, the south-east wing was extended upwards to give it a first floor and after 1919, an extension was added to the north-west. Access to the interior could not be gained.

This church school was endowed by Mrs Elizabeth Donnison in 1764 and was typical of the small local charity schools of 18th century. Its purpose was to educate some 36 poor girls in reading and sewing, and to provide them with clothing and shoes. Two buildings survive, neither now used for educational purposes. The earlier part, with a blank arcade, was built in 1798 as a schoolroom, and in 1827 a three-bay house was added for the mistress {1}.

Because it was a port, Sunderland had many incapacitated seamen to care for, and probably three times as many widows or orphans of dead seamen. By the middle of 19th century relief was being provided for some 800 widows, 800 orphans and 300 disabled or temporarily unemployed seamen. To provide accommodation for some of these people almshouses (now demolished) were built in 1727 at the Assembly Garth south-west of Holy Trinity Church. In 1840 these were supplemented by the almshouses at Trafalgar Square, built in the garden of the old workhouse and designed by William Drysdale {1}. These picturesque almshouses were built in 1840 - completed some five years before the square of the same name in London - in honour of the Sunderland men at the Battle of Trafalgar. In 2010, 200 years after the death of Admiral Lord Collingwood, a monument is to be erected in the grounds, listing the men, their ages, ranks and the ships on which they served. The youngest from Sunderland was Thomas Brown who was 14. He was on board HMS Minotaur. The oldest was 56 year old Quartermaster John King on board HMS Victory {souvenir publication}. The buildings were recorded in 2016 by NECT prior to repair and alteration works.

Parapet wall to terrace at rear of library and museum (qv), with statues on some piers, at N end of extension to Mowbray Park. 1866. Ashlar wall and stone statues. Low coped wall has plinth and pattern of pierced linked circles between rectangular piers. Figures of recumbent lions on piers at each end and flanking central pier.