Riverside Walkway, 'The Red House'
Riverside Walkway, 'The Red House'
HER Number
11128
District
Sunderland
Site Name
Riverside Walkway, 'The Red House'
Place
Monkwearmouth
Map Sheet
NZ45NW
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
1995 by Colin Wilbourn and Karl Fisher. Writer - Chaz Brenchley. A large red sandstone sculpture representing the ground floor of a house (a fireplace, coat hanging on a door, a table, a rug, books and desk). The rug is carved with the words "WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND". The sandstone came from the Queen Alexandra Bridge. There are further words carved on a stone block outside the piece. Commissioned by the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation.
Easting
440700
Northing
557800
Grid Reference
NZ440700557800
Sources
Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 195