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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

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