Tyne and Wear HER(11160): Monkwearmouth, North Dock, 'Passing Through' - Details
11160
Sunderland
Monkwearmouth, North Dock, 'Passing Through'
Monkwearmouth
NZ45NW
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces
Street Furniture
Sculpture
Modern
C20
Structure
1997 by Colin Wilbourn, Karl Fisher and Craig Knowles. Comprises of a sailing ship carved into a retaining wall at the rear of North Dock. The perspective is only aligned correctly if viewed from a nearby bench looking through the keyhole of a half door. There is also a stone doorway set into the retaining wall with a sun in stained glass lit from a lamp inside. A third doorway in soft white stone stands separately with two steel oars against it and a stained glass sailing boat and a seagull. Commissioned by Tyne and Wear Development Corporation.
406
584
NZ406584
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 196-7