Gosforth Park, grandstand
Gosforth Park, grandstand
HER Number
8973
District
Newcastle
Site Name
Gosforth Park, grandstand
Place
Gosforth
Map Sheet
NZ27SW
Class
Recreational
Site Type: Broad
Sports Building
Site Type: Specific
Grandstand
General Period
POST MEDIEVAL
Specific Period
Victorian 1837 to 1901
Form of Evidence
Extant Building
Description
Grandstand. Circa 1875 for High Gosforth Park Co. Ltd. Sandstone ashlar; cast iron
loggia with glass roof; later wrought iron railings. Rusticated wall supports
10-bay loggia with 8-bay arcade of slender columns with quasi-Ionic capitals and
pierced spandrels under barge-boarded glass roof. Roof terrace on shorter similar
columns has altered fascia. Lynn Pearson says the year was 1867 and the architect was William Parnell, designer of the Tyne Theatre. LISTED GRADE 2
loggia with glass roof; later wrought iron railings. Rusticated wall supports
10-bay loggia with 8-bay arcade of slender columns with quasi-Ionic capitals and
pierced spandrels under barge-boarded glass roof. Roof terrace on shorter similar
columns has altered fascia. Lynn Pearson says the year was 1867 and the architect was William Parnell, designer of the Tyne Theatre. LISTED GRADE 2
Easting
424840
Northing
571230
Grid Reference
NZ424840571230
Sources
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 4/56; Pearson, Lynn, 2010, Played in Tyne and Wear - Charting the heritage of people at play, p 32