The Viking Shopping Centre

HER Number

9671

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

The Viking Shopping Centre

Place

Jarrow

Map Sheet

NZ36NW

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Shopping Centre

Site Type: Specific

Shopping Centre

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Mid 20th Century 1933 to 1966

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Two-storey concrete frame and brick shops, round two wide malls with planting. Architects - Shingler Risdon Associates in association with G.M. Baxter of the Arndale Property Trust Ltd, 1959.

Easting

432760

Northing

565270

Grid Reference

NZ432760565270

Sources

N. Pevsner (second edition revised by Elizabeth Williamson), 1983, The Buildings of England - County Durham, page 343