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Latitude: 54.8834 / 54°53'0"N
Longitude: -1.3671 / 1°22'1"W
OS Eastings: 440700
OS Northings: 554478
OS Grid: NZ407544
Mapcode National: GBR VFX.FY
Mapcode Global: WHD5C.ZJ55
Plus Code: 9C6WVJMM+95
Entry Name: North Chapel of Sunderland Cemetery
Listing Date: 17 October 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1279868
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391571
ID on this website: 101279868
Location: Grangetown, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, SR2
County: Sunderland
Electoral Ward/Division: Ryhope
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Sunderland
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Grangetown
Church of England Diocese: Durham
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SUNDERLAND
NZ45SW RYHOPE ROAD
920-1/7/196 (West side (off))
North Chapel of Sunderland Cemetery
GV II
Chapel of municipal cemetery. c1858. Snecked limestone rubble
with ashlar plinth and dressings; Welsh slate roof with stone
gable copings and wrought-iron finial. Geographical N is
ritual E. Nave with sanctuary and transepts, N vestry, W porch
and NW tower. Decorated style with tracery and buttresses.
Half-octagonal sanctuary has cusped lights under lion-masked
eaves gutter to pointed roof; transepts have 3-light windows
on sill string with ball-leaf stops. W porch has diagonal
stepped buttresses flanking double door in pointed-arched
moulded surround with irregular block jamb, under gable with
fleur-de-lys finial. Trefoil in nave gable peak above. Square
tower set back slightly from porch has tall lancets with
alternate block jambs and flower-stopped hoodmoulds to
geometric tracery; gabled diagonal buttresses stepped back to
gables with incised trefoils; tower reduces to octagonal plan
behind these and rises through receding stepped coping to high
octagonal belfry stage with high pointed-arched louvred
openings under head-stopped dripstring; tall stone spire. Roof
has fleur-de-lys finials on overlapping stone gable coping; E
wrought-iron cross finial.
Listing NGR: NZ4070054478
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