Wallsend, Frank St, Swan Hunter Memorial Hall, war memorial

HER Number:
7362

District:
N Tyneside

Site Name:
Wallsend, Frank St, Swan Hunter Memorial Hall, war memorial

Place:
Wallsend

Map Sheet:
NZ26NE

Class:
Commemorative

Site Type: Broad:
Commemorative Monument

Site Type: Specific:
War Memorial

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
War memorial. Dated 1925. Statues and low reliefs signed R. Hedley of Newcastle. Bronze statues and relief panels on ashlar. Statues of marine and soldier on column pedestals. Round-arched panel with plaques showing names of members of staff and workmen of Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson Ltd who died in the Great War 1914-1918. Central low relief of man in shed operating plate-punching machine. High relief of naval ship off mouth of Tyne. Iron gate of geometric pattern and spear-headed railings enclose the area in front. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting:
2992

Northing:
6632

Grid Reference:
NZ29926632

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 6/151; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 212-3; North East War Memorials Project (www.newmp.org.uk) W7.03; English Heritage, 25 April 2013, new list entry number 1413255