Walker Park (formerly in Heaton Park), 'Rabbie Burns'

HER Number

11118

District

Newcastle

Site Name

Walker Park (formerly in Heaton Park), 'Rabbie Burns'

Place

Walker

Map Sheet

NZ26NE

Class

Gardens Parks and Urban Spaces

Site Type: Broad

Sculpture

Site Type: Specific

Statue

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Destroyed Monument

Description

Lost statue. It was a bronze figure with outstretched arms 1.8m high, on a stone circular pedestal 2m high and was donated by members of the Burns Club. It was erected in Walker Park in 1901, repaired and re-sited in Heaton Park in 1975 and removed in 1984 after vandals broke the statue into several pieces. A replica has been re-erected in Walker Park August 2016.

Easting

428900

Northing

564100

Grid Reference

NZ428900564100

Sources

Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 220; The Journal 18, 22 and 26 March 1994; www.newcastle.gov.uk/news-story/return-rabbie-burns-back