Lawe Beacon (East)
Lawe Beacon (East)
HER Number
2346
District
S Tyneside
Site Name
Lawe Beacon (East)
Place
South Shields
Map Sheet
NZ36NE
Class
Communications
Site Type: Broad
Signalling Structure
Site Type: Specific
Beacon
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Hanoverian 1714 to 1837
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
The eastern Lawe Beacon is one of a pair, with the western beacon (HER ref. 2347), of guides for vessels entering the mouth of the Tyne. It is an obelisk of brick with a stone base and cap. The beacons were erected in 1832 as high and low navigation marks complementing the lights of North Shields. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
436590
Northing
568080
Grid Reference
NZ436590568080
Sources
<< HER 2346 >> 1st edition Ordnance Survey Map, c.1855, 6 inch scale, Durham, 4
I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 28; NECT, 2015, National Heritage at Risk Grade II Project
I. Ayris & S.M. Linsley, 1994, A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of Tyne and Wear, p 28; NECT, 2015, National Heritage at Risk Grade II Project