Benton, Whitley Road, Rising Sun Country Park, 'Imago'

HER Number:
11048

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Benton, Whitley Road, Rising Sun Country Park, 'Imago'

Place:
Benton

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Gate

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
1996 by William Pym with writing by Kathleen Raine from her poem 'The Healing Spring'. Located at the junction with the Killingworth Waggonway. A silver gate in galvanised steel 1.3m high and 8.4m wide with a large cut-out moth and cut lettering "PATIENTLY THE EARTH'S WOUNDS CLOSE. THE WOMB HEALS OF ITS SONS. AS BARK OVER A TORN BRANCH GROWS". West of the gate is a panel containing wildlife and other objects. Funded by Sustrans, North Tyneside Council and the Rising Sun Countryside Park. Part of the Sustrans National Cycle Network sea to sea (C2C).

Easting:
2950

Northing:
6959

Grid Reference:
NZ29506959

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North-East England, p 84-5