Armstrong Park, stone columns
Armstrong Park, stone columns
HER Number
5736
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Armstrong Park, stone columns
Place
Heaton
Map Sheet
NZ26NE
Class
Unassigned
Site Type: Broad
Building Component
Site Type: Specific
Column
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Find
Description
Three stone columns opposite the "shoe trees" where visitors have been leaving old shoes for twenty years. The columns are architectural fragments from the Royal Arcade, , which was demolished in the 1960s. The pieces were stored at Warwick Street until the 1970s then deposited in Heaton Park.
Easting
426550
Northing
565760
Grid Reference
NZ426550565760
Sources
<< HER 5736 >> Pers. Comm. Jesmond Dene Rangers, 2004