Eldon Square, 'Man With Pigeons'

HER Number

10893

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Eldon Square, 'Man With Pigeons'

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SW

Class

Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad

Sculpture

Site Type: Specific

Statue

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

1976 by Andre Wallace. This is a bronze statue of a man with several pigeons. Originally located in Old Eldon Square, it was moved to a lobby of an office entry on the upper level of the Eldon Square Shopping Centre.

Easting

424630

Northing

564530

Grid Reference

NZ424630564530

Sources

Ian Ayris, Peter Jubb, Steve Palmer and Paul Usherwood, 1996, A Guide to the Public Monuments and Sculpture of Tyne and Wear, p 82; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North-East England, p 113; Journal, 16 December 1994; Brick Bulletin, No. 3, September 1978