Memorial

Pillar 1914-18 1939-45 Welfare Centre

Gosforth

Memorial Name: Pillar 1914-18 1939-45 Welfare Centre (G9.01)

NEWMP Ref No.: G9.01

Parish: Gosforth

Original Location:

In grounds of the Welfare Clinic

Present Location:

Central Park, Gosforth, Moor Road North.

Which War:

a. 1914-18
b. 1939-45

Dedication, Creation or Publication date:

a. Unveiled 28th January 1925 by the Duke of Northumberland.
b. Second plaque added 1949.

Materials Used:

Carlisle red sandstone, bronze plaques.

Who Commissioned:

Gosforth War Memorial Committee

Cost:

£152

How Money was Raised:

From War Memorial Fund

Sculptor, Artist or Designer:

Made by N. Kindred, Swalwell.
Designed by the City Surveyor

Ownership and Maintenance: Newcastle City Council

Inscription:

On front:
This column and adjacent building
were erected by public subscription
to the memory of the men of Gosforth
who fell in the Great War
1914-1918
Their names are inscribed on a tablet
in the vestibule of the building.

On rear:
The hall to the west of this stone
erected with public subscription
was dedicated on Remembrance Day
the 6th November 1949
as a memorial
to those who gave their lives
whilst serving in H.M. Forces
and the Merchant Navy
in the 1939-1945 War.

Memorial Description:

Column, octagonal, with Palladian-type finial, on a pedestal set on three steps.

Total height approx. 12 feet (3.7m).

The dedications are carried on bronze plaques set into sunken panels on front and back on which the lettering is in raised Roman lettering.

Names:

None

Notes:

1. The second plaque refers to the maternity and child welfare centre, located in Church Road, Gosforth. See G9.20

2. In 1919 £10 was given on behalf of Woodbine Road Methodist Church towards the Gosforth War Memorial.

3.Restored c.2000 Restored again in March/April 2016 by Corinthia, conservation specialists. The original brick plinth had deteriorated, and was repaired with Cumbrian sandstone

External Links:

Historic England Listing

Sources:

Photos: P. Thirkell; T. Harding; Dorothy Procter

Illustrated Chronicle
29/01/1920 reports unveiling with photos.

Newcastle Weekly Chronicle
17/01/1925 reports proposed unveiling;
31/01/1925 reports unveiling.

Morpeth Herald
23/01/1925 reports proposed unveiling by Duke of Northumberland.

Catalogue of Sculpture, Monuments and Memorials in Public Places in Newcastle upon Tyne Newcastle City Council Summer 1985

At the Going Down of the Sun, Derek Boorman.

Additional Research Documents

Research Acknowledgements:

Lillie Bailey & Gosforth Local History Society;
F. McDonald (Newcastle City Council, 1985);
Janet Brown;
David Heslop (Tyne-Wear County Archaeologist),
Philip Thirkell;
Tony Harding;
Dorothy Hall;
Kevin Milburn;
James Croft (Corinthia);
Friends of Gosforth Central Park