Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ3956SE PARK ROAD
920-1/22/168 (South side)
Park Road Methodist Church with
school, walls and gates attached

GV II

Methodist church, with school, walls and gates attached. 1887.
By J Eltringham. For New Connection. Rock-faced stone with
ashlar dresings and Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings,
terracotta ridge, and stone spire. Aisled nave with transepts
and SW tower; SE school; geographical S is ritual E. Decorated
style with cusped geometric tracery.
EXTERIOR: 3-light transept and 2-light aisle windows on sill
string, with stepped 4-light transept window under gable and
traceried 2-light aisle gallery windows on sill string, all
with dripmoulds. Gabled W entrance has steps up to paired
shafted boarded doors with roundel in soffit of high pointed
moulded arch. High 5-light window rises behind, under
dripstring, and fills gable. Spirelet on pinnacle to left of
gable; 4-stage tower to right has paired windows in first
stage and moulded arch to door in right return; 6-foil
roundels in second, paired lancets in third and high louvred
belfry openings under crocketed gabled dripmould in fourth;
buttresses, gabled in lower stages, rise to polygonal
pinnacles with spirelets; high octagonal stone spire. School
has gabled moulded arch over boarded door with elaborate
hinges; high 4-light window over door; buttressed gable; high
ridge ventilator with swept eaves.
Dwarf walls link piers in front of tower with school, and have
chamfered coping; piers have roll-moulded sloping coping.
Wrought-iron gates have spiral motifs.
INTERIOR of church shows galleries on 3 sides on cast-iron
quatrefoil piers with ringed shafts; hammerbeam roof with
boarded coving. High quality furnishings, most of them
original, include roll-moulded pews with painted numbers and
brass umbrella rails; gothic organ case. High quality stained
glass includes N aisle windows by Powell Bros. Leeds; Atkinson
Bros. Newcastle; Heaton, Butler and Bayne; S aisle by Atkinson
Bros. and Wailes and Strang Artists Newcastle.

Listing NGR: NZ3978656284

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502283

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)