Hendon, The Quadrant, East End Community Sculpture

HER Number:
11130

District:
Sunderland

Site Name:
Hendon, The Quadrant, East End Community Sculpture

Place:
Hendon

Map Sheet:
NZ45NW

Class:
Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad:
Street Furniture

Site Type: Specific:
Sculpture

General Period:
Modern

Specific Period:
C20

Form of Evidence:
Structure

Description:
1993 by Matthew Jarratt. Three well-headed shaped red brick walls 1.56m high and 3.6m wide with yellow fire clay panels set into them carved with a crane, house, ship, bridges and a lighthouse, with 'VEDRA' above in raised letters. There is also a boat-shaped planter in red brick, surrounded by coloured mosaics. Set in a wildlife garden to the rear of the community centre. Commissioned by City of Sunderland.

Easting:
4074

Northing:
5705

Grid Reference:
NZ40745705

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 188