Gosforth, Central Park, War Memorial

HER Number:
5204

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Gosforth, Central Park, War Memorial

Place:
Gosforth

Map Sheet:
NZ26NW

Class:
Commemorative

Site Type: Broad:
Commemorative Monument

Site Type: Specific:
War Memorial

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
Red sandstone on a podium of three levels of steps of red brick. There are two bronze commemorative panels fixed to the central stone pillar. Unveiled 28th January 1925 by the Duke of Northumberland and second plaque added in 1949. Cost £152 raised as part of the general War Memorial Fund in a campaign led by the Gosforth War Memorial Committee. GRADE II LISTED

Easting:
2454

Northing:
6795

Grid Reference:
NZ24546795

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5204 >> T. Coulter & R. Ogilvy, in association with City Design, 2002, Monuments, War Memorials, Drinking Fountains - Condition & Recommendatations, p 34-35; North East Memorials Project (www.newmp.org.uk) G9.01; Morpeth Herald 23rd January 1925; Derek Boorman, "At the Going Down of the Sun"; Historic England, 2016, Advice Report