Deptford, Farringdon Row, 'Standing Stones'

HER Number:
11133

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Deptford, Farringdon Row, 'Standing Stones'

Place:
Deptford

Map Sheet:
NZ35NE

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:
1997 by Rosie Leventon. Four large boulders each with a single vertical stripe, set in a line across the grass from the river bank to a line of trees. A fifth smaller boulder carries an inscription "HERE IS THE END OF THE LINE/ STAITHES AND THE START OF THE SEA/ THE WORM IN THE WATER". The stripe across the boulders represents the worked-out coal seam. Commissioned by the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation as part of the Stephenson Trail.

Easting:
390

Northing:
576

Grid Reference:
NZ390576

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 185-6; City of Sunderland, The Stephenson Trail leaflets