Monkwearmouth, Riverside Walkway, 'The Red House'

HER Number:
11128

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Monkwearmouth, Riverside Walkway, 'The Red House'

Place:
Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad:
Street Furniture

Site Type: Specific:
Sculpture

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
1995 by Colin Wilbourn and Karl Fisher. Writer - Chaz Brenchley. A large red sandstone sculpture representing the ground floor of a house (a fireplace, coat hanging on a door, a table, a rug, books and desk). The rug is carved with the words "WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND". The sandstone came from the Queen Alexandra Bridge. There are further words carved on a stone block outside the piece. Commissioned by the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation.

Easting:
407

Northing:
578

Grid Reference:
NZ407578

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 195