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

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
<< HER 5736 >> Pers. Comm. Jesmond Dene Rangers, 2004