MONUMENT 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY

MONUMENT 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, SHIELDS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185065
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address:: MONUMENT 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, SHIELDS ROAD

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Date:: 2001-04-03
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1185065
Date first listed:: 18-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: MONUMENT 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY
Statutory Address 1:: MONUMENT 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, SHIELDS ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: MONUMENT 15 METRES WEST OF CHURCH OF ST MARY, SHIELDS ROAD

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

District:: Gateshead (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 28634 61913

Details

NZ 26 SE FELLING SHIELDS ROAD (east side) Heworth.

6/48 (inset) Monument 15 metres west of Church of St. Mary.

G.V. II

Memorial to 91 persons killed in Felling Colliery, May 1812. Sandstone and bronze. Obelisk on squareplinth and base, all chamfered; 4 bronze plaques on plinth record the names and ages of the dead, of whom the youngest was aged 8. Historical note: after this accident the rector of Heworth, John Hodgson, set about forming the Society for the Prevention of Accidents in Coal Mines and encouraged Sir Humphrey Davy in the development of his safety lamp. Source: James Raine A Memoir of the Rev. John Hodgson 2 vols. 1857 Vol. I pp 90-119, 170-186.

Listing NGR: NZ2863461913

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Legacy System number:: 303814
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Raine, J, A Memoir of the Reverend John Hodgson, (1857), 90-119
Raine, J, A Memoir of the Reverend John Hodgson, (1857), 170-186

Legal

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