Percy Main, Percy Main Metro Station, 'Steam'

HER Number:
11143

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Percy Main, Percy Main Metro Station, 'Steam'

Place:
Percy Main

Map Sheet:
NZ36NW

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 Aidan Doyle. Relief sculpture in cut and forged steel of a steam engine (painted yellow), a grey horse-drawn wagon team and a steam engine and wagons, one with JUPITER on its side. 10m long and 3.5m high. On side of building 100m along track to west.

Easting:
3368

Northing:
6734

Grid Reference:
NZ33686734

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 155