GEORGE STEPHENSON MEMORIAL

GEORGE STEPHENSON MEMORIAL, WESTGATE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1338572
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1965
List Entry Name:: GEORGE STEPHENSON MEMORIAL
Statutory Address:: GEORGE STEPHENSON MEMORIAL, WESTGATE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1338572
Date first listed:: 12-Nov-1965
List Entry Name:: GEORGE STEPHENSON MEMORIAL
Statutory Address 1:: GEORGE STEPHENSON MEMORIAL, WESTGATE 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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Location

Statutory Address:: GEORGE STEPHENSON MEMORIAL, WESTGATE ROAD

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 24747 63955

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/01/2017

NZ 2463 NE, 23/593

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, WESTGATE ROAD (south side), George Stephenson Memorial

(Formerly listed as: Robert Stephenson Memorial)

12.11.65

GV

II*

Statue. 1862 by J. G. Lough, Sandstone and bronze. Wide square step to heavily rusticated plinth and tapered octagonal pedestal supporting seated heroic figure of George Stephenson. Corner projections support four over-life-size figures representing spheres of Stephenson's activity: miner, locomotive engineer, blacksmith and bridge builder.

Listing NGR: NZ2474763955

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Legacy System number:: 304945
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.