Swalwell, Hexham Road, war memorial
Swalwell, Hexham Road, war memorial
HER Number
8366
District
Gateshead
Site Name
Swalwell, Hexham Road, war memorial
Place
Swalwell
Map Sheet
NZ26SW
Class
Commemorative
Site Type: Broad
Commemorative Monument
Site Type: Specific
War Memorial
General Period
20TH CENTURY
Specific Period
First World War 1914 to 1918
Form of Evidence
Structure
Description
War Memorial. 1918 by W.H. Wood. Ashlar with inscribed Lakeland slate panels.
Octagonal; Perpendicular style. Wide step to double-chamfered pedestal
inscribed UNVEILED BY THE RT. HON. EARL OF DURHAM K.C. LORD LIEUTENANT
EASTER MONDAY 1918, (sic) and bearing 9 panels of names of dead of two World
Wars. Low-relief lettering in band above panels; sloped coping supports moulded
and coped buttresses defining ogee-headed panels containing blank shields
under string. Foliage decoration to tall tapered shaft with cross finial. LISTED GRADE 2
Octagonal; Perpendicular style. Wide step to double-chamfered pedestal
inscribed UNVEILED BY THE RT. HON. EARL OF DURHAM K.C. LORD LIEUTENANT
EASTER MONDAY 1918, (sic) and bearing 9 panels of names of dead of two World
Wars. Low-relief lettering in band above panels; sloped coping supports moulded
and coped buttresses defining ogee-headed panels containing blank shields
under string. Foliage decoration to tall tapered shaft with cross finial. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
420210
Northing
562150
Grid Reference
NZ420210562150
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special architectural or Historic Interest, 17/139; Ian Ayris, Peter Jubb, Steve Palmer and Paul Usherwood, 1996, A Guide to the Public Monuments and Sculpture of Tyne and Wear, p 65; North East War Memorials Project (www.newmp.org.uk) S85.01