Tyne and Wear HER(7355): Wallsend, Archer Street, war memorial - Details
7355
N Tyneside
Wallsend, Archer Street, war memorial
Wallsend
NZ36NW
Commemorative
Commemorative Monument
War Memorial
Modern
C20
Structure
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
3111
6709
NZ31116709
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