ARMSTRONG MEMORIAL

ARMSTRONG MEMORIAL, BARRAS BRIDGE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299341
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: ARMSTRONG MEMORIAL
Statutory Address:: ARMSTRONG MEMORIAL, BARRAS BRIDGE

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Date:: 2000-07-01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1299341
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: ARMSTRONG MEMORIAL
Statutory Address 1:: ARMSTRONG MEMORIAL, BARRAS BRIDGE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ARMSTRONG MEMORIAL, BARRAS BRIDGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 24879 65068

Details

NZ 2465 SE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BARRAS BRIDGE (north side)

14/284 Armstrong Memorial

G.V. II

Statue and screen walls and piers. 1905-6, signed by Hamo Thornycroft. Sand- stone steps, walls, piers and pedestal; bronze statue and low reliefs. 2 curved steps up to tall square pedestal and standing life-size figure of Lord Armstrong. Square piers with plinths and bracketed pilasters and cornices terminate screen walls which have low-relief panels: at left showing guns being lowered onto a ship, at right the Newcastle Swing Bridge.

Listing NGR: NZ2487965068

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Legacy System number:: 304385
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.