Description

SUNDERLAND

NZ35NE CHESTER ROAD
920-1/4/30 (North side)
South entrance incl. gates, piers &
railings to Bishopwearmouth Cemetery

GV II

South entrance and boundary railings to Bishopwearmouth
Cemetery. 1856. By Thomas Moore. Entrance piers and gates
flanked by railings extending c200 metres to W and 200 metres
to E along Chester Road. Painted cast-iron piers and railings;
ashlar piers to flanking walls; brick dwarf walls with ashlar
coping. Perpendicular style. Open octagonal cast-iron gate
piers have central ornamental band; brattished decoration on
high swept coping with bud finials. Gates have dog bars below
pierced quatrefoil band, and lozenge-shaped bud finials.
Serpentine walls with chamfered ashlar coping support
railings, ramped to piers, with similar pierced band above
shorter dogbars, and similar finials. Painted ashlar octagonal
piers flank serpentine entrance walls and have brattished
ornament on high coping.
(Milburn GE and Miller ST: Sunderland River, Town and People:
Sunderland: 1988-: 157; Corfe T: The Buildings of Sunderland
1814-1914: Newcastle: 1983-: 15).

Listing NGR: NZ3759056168

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26503042

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey