Monkwearmouth, North Dock, 'Flight'

HER Number:
11163

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Monkwearmouth, North Dock, 'Flight'

Place:
Monkwearmouth

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:

Site Type: Broad:

Site Type: Specific:
Weather Vane

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
1997 by Craig Knowles. A forged steel weather vane with two silver cormorants and clouds with a north-south pointer below, on a black-painted steel pole in a concrete base in a circular wooden bench. 7.2m high.

Easting:
406

Northing:
583

Grid Reference:
NZ406583

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 198-9