Facilities and features
Accessibility
Available in the worship area/Chapter House, Parish Hall and Old Schoolroom
The on-site parking is in the yard behind the Old Schoolroom, between the Parish Hall and the Vicarage. There is limited parking and is shared between all our buildings within the site. It is not at the same level as the worship area and Chapter House. On-street parking is available on Cleadon Lane and Sunderland Road after 5.30pm weekdays and at weekends.
Available in the worship area/Chapter House, Parish Hall and Old Schoolroom
Our Building
Grade II
Parish church. 1869 by R J Johnson, south aisle 1907. Snecked limestone rubble with sandstone ashlar quoins and dressings, high-pitched roofs of Welsh slate with stone coping to nave and aisle, in Early English style. Nave with south aisle and south porch, chancel with 3-sided apse, north transept. 2 windows of 3 lights in nave and aisle; south door in chamfered opening between recessed columns on plinths, with drip mould; 2 buttresses to aisle. Transept has a 2-light window in the gable and an east door with flower stops to a drip-mould. Roof has stone cross finial at west, iron at east; above the chancel a hexagonal timber bellcote with Welsh slate spirelet and iron finial; chimney at the transept gable. Interior: south arcade of 2 wide bays, paintings of Garden of Gethsemane by J Eadie Read of Newcastle c.1914 in spandrels; apse paintings of Christ on the Cross and Christ in Majesty by Michael Hoare of Folkestone in 1967; 2-light west window war memorial by L C Evetts of Newcastle in 1948.
Music and Worship
8.00am Sunday morning
Groups, Courses and Activities
Meets in the Parish Hall in the early evening of Mondays
Wednesday afternoon in the Chapter House
Meets in the Parish Hall on Wednesdays
Second Saturday of the month 10.30am-11.45am
Meets in the Parish Hall on Friday in the early evening
Meets in the Parish Hall on Wednesday evenings
Meets in the Chapter House on the 2nd Tuesday of the month at 2pm
Meets in the Parish Hall on Wednesday Afternoon 1.30pm-3.00pm during term-time, please enter through the rear door off the yard accessed between the Old Schoolroom and the Vicarage, 5 Sunderland Road
Meets in the early evening on Wednesdays in the Parish Hall
Meets in the Parish Hall on Friday evenings
Help for Visitors
usually available from 9.30am-3.30pm Monday-Saturday
Other Features
We endeavour to use fair-trade products.
We support the Bread of Life South Shields food bank, by collecting for them.
For information and bookings contact The Parish Administrator, The Parish Office, 1 Sunderland Road, Cleadon, Sunderland, SR6 7UR, 0191 519 0515 [email protected]