Sandgate, 'Keelrow'

HER Number

11028

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Sandgate, 'Keelrow'

Place

Newcastle

Map Sheet

NZ26SE

Class

Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad

Sculpture

Site Type: Specific

Sculpture

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Late 20th Century 1967 to 2000

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

1996 by Neil Talbot and Graciela Ainsworth. Commissioned by Tyne and Wear Development Corporation. Based on the eighteenth century sone 'Weel may the Keel row'. A sandstone wall with carvings of keel boats. Neil Talbot was head of sculpture at Northumbria University in 1992 and 1993.

Easting

425570

Northing

563990

Grid Reference

NZ425570563990

Sources

Art On the Riverside, Grainger Town Partnership, Arts Council England, Nexus and Newcastle City Council, Public Art in Newcastle - A Guide (booklet); Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North-East England, p 108-9; Allan's Illustrated Edition of Tyneside Songs, 1891, p 1; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p 134