Newcastle, Exhibition Park, Palace of Arts

HER Number:
5064

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Exhibition Park, Palace of Arts

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Recreational

Site Type: Broad:
Art and Education Venue

Site Type: Specific:
Exhibition Hall

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Extant Building

Description:
The only surviving building from the 1929 exhibition (see HER 5063). Now used as Military Vehicles Museum. Steel-framed and clad in artificial stone for the security of the valuable works of art it once displayed. 120 feet square pavilion with a colonnaded entrance, reinforced concrete roof and large cast iron framed dome. LISTED GRADE 2. Now Wylam Brewery.

Easting:
2463

Northing:
6582

Grid Reference:
NZ24636582

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5064 >> T. Henderson, 1999, When the North made an exhibition of itself, The Journal, May 15 1999, p 36-37 N. Pevsner and I. Richmond, second edition revised by G. McCombie, P. Ryder and H. Welfare, 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland, p 454 I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 80