85 to 89 Westgate Road, clock

HER Number

12217

District

Newcastle

Site Name

85 to 89 Westgate Road, clock

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad

Ornamental Clock

Site Type: Specific

Ornamental Clock

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

Projecting gilded square clock topped with a gilded female figure added to the building in 1935. Cost £700 and operates on a synchronome electrical impulse system.

Easting

424460

Northing

564020

Grid Reference

NZ424460564020

Sources

Thomas Yellowley, 2006, Newcastle timepieces in Tyneside's Finest, 2006, p 191; Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 1833/20/10069; N. Pevsner, 1992, The Buildings of England: Northumberland (second edition); D. Lovie, 1997, The Buildings of Grainger Town; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 132; Goldsmiths Journal, September 1935, p. 591; Newcastle Journal 1 August 1935, C. Goulding, 1998, Tinseltoon