Ouseburn, Cumberland Arms, 'Seats with a View'

HER Number:
11016

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Ouseburn, Cumberland Arms, 'Seats with a View'

Place:
Ouseburn

Map Sheet:
NZ26SE

Class:

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Seat

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
By Bridget Jones, David Edwick and Tim Kendall. A circle of seats and stone blocks telling story fragments by Chris Bostock and Malcolm Green, storytellers based at the Cumberland Arms. Sword dancers and fiddle players also based at the pub, suggested the motifs which were carved onto the stone blocks. Flowers are carved into the seats and there is a standing stone inscribed 'The Grassy Hill'. Commissioned by the Ouseburn Art Project.

Easting:
2642

Northing:
6462

Grid Reference:
NZ26426462

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Art On the Riverside, Grainger Town Partnership, Arts Council England, Nexus and Newcastle City Council, Public Art in Newcastle - A Guide (booklet)