New Herrington, Herrington Country Park, 'John's Rock'

HER Number

11155

District

Sunderland

Site Name

New Herrington, Herrington Country Park, 'John's Rock'

Place

New Herrington

Map Sheet

NZ35SW

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

1998 by David Paton. A large yellow boulder to which ten high-relief portraits of workers from Herrington Quarry in white Portland stone are attached by steel frames. The work was vandalised the day before it was unveiled. The work was moved and restored after subsequent vandalism.

Easting

433900

Northing

553600

Grid Reference

NZ433900553600

Sources

Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 167-9