Sunderland Enterprise Park, 'Endless Column'

HER Number

11176

District

Sunderland

Site Name

Sunderland Enterprise Park, 'Endless Column'

Place

North Hylton

Map Sheet

NZ35NE

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

1997 by Gilbert Ward. Located at the junction of Timber Beach Road and Colima Avenue. A tall yellow sandstone column, 4.2m high, similar to Brancusi's steel 'Endless Column' of 1937 located at Tirgu-Jiu in Romania.

Easting

436450

Northing

558170

Grid Reference

NZ436450558170

Sources

Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 201