Tyne and Wear HER(8789): Newcastle, King's Walk, Quadrangle gateway - Details
8789
Newcastle
Newcastle, King's Walk, Quadrangle gateway
Newcastle
NZ26NW
Gate
Modern
C20
Structure
Gateway, part of Art Department. 1911 by W. H. Knowles for Armstrong College.
Dark red Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings; roof of plain tiles. Tudor
style. Gabled front of 3 storeys, one bay. Paired moulded arches with blind
tracery above containing statue of Edward VII in central niche. Gothic-lettered
Latin legend in frieze below pierced parapet. Upper floors, recessed between wide
full-height buttresses, contain 2-storey canted bay with large royal arms in
panel between floors. Stone mullioned and transomed windows. Top battlemented
parapet with corner pinnacles. LISTED GRADE 2
2473
6504
NZ24736504
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 14/354; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 141-2; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 30