138 High Street West, Gibbon's Butcher Shop

HER Number

11132

District

Sunderland

Site Name

138 High Street West, Gibbon's Butcher Shop

Place

Sunderland

Map Sheet

NZ45NW

Class

Commercial

Site Type: Broad

Shop

Site Type: Specific

Butchers Shop

General Period

POST MEDIEVAL

Specific Period

Victorian 1837 to 1901

Form of Evidence

Extant Building

Description

Building c. 1859; restored 1996. There are two carved dancing female figures (95cm high and 40cm wide) like caryatids on opposite corners of the shop façade. Each is brightly painted with a lilac dress, blonde hair and blue necklace. There are also brightly painted relief heads (10cm square) including a king and a queen.

Easting

440000

Northing

557200

Grid Reference

NZ440000557200

Sources

Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 186