South Shields, Lawe Beacon (West)

HER Number:
2347

District:
S Tyneside

Site Name:
South Shields, Lawe Beacon (West)

Place:
South Shields

Map Sheet:
NZ36NE

Class:
Communications

Site Type: Broad:
Signalling Structure

Site Type: Specific:
Beacon

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
The western Lawe Beacon is one of a pair, with the western beacon (HER ref. 2346), of guides for vessels entering the mouth of the Tyne. It is an obelisk of brick with a stone base and cap. The beacons were erected in 1832 as high and low navigation marks complementing the lights of North Shields. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
3654

Northing:
6806

Grid Reference:
NZ36546806

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 2347 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 4 I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 28; National Heritage at Risk Grade II Project