Archer Street, war memorial

HER Number

7355

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

Archer Street, war memorial

Place

Wallsend

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Commemorative

Site Type: Broad

Commemorative Monument

Site Type: Specific

War Memorial

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Memorial. Circa 1918 for Borough of Wallsend. Granite and bronze. Bronze angel of victory on sphere on very tall scroll-topped obelisk. Palm decoration to corner panels of plinth on stepped base. South panel commemorates dead of First World War; inscription on step those of Second. Top of plinth inscribed AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

431110

Northing

567090

Grid Reference

NZ431110567090

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 7/144; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 211-2; North East War Memorials Project (www.newmp.org.uk) W7.01