Church of St. Stephen, war memorial

HER Number

11191

District

S Tyneside

Site Name

Church of St. Stephen, war memorial

Place

South Shields

Map Sheet

NZ36NE

Class

Commemorative

Site Type: Broad

Commemorative Monument

Site Type: Specific

War Memorial

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

A splendid 1914-18 monument consisting of a series of inscribed brass plaques mounted within a Clasically detailed black painted frame formed of two Doric columns supporting an entablature. "ERECTED IN HONOUR OF THE MEN OF WELLINGTON STREET WHO FOUGHT AND DIED IN THE GREAT WAR, THEIR GLORY LIVETH EVERMORE". Probably unique in the region as a memorial dedicated to those men from a single street killed in the war.

Easting

436170

Northing

567820

Grid Reference

NZ436170567820

Sources

Ian Ayris, Peter Jubb, Steve Palmer, Paul Usherwood, 1996, A Guide to the Public Monuments & Sculpture of Tyne and Wear, p 62; North East War Memorials Project www.newmp.org.uk S86.025