Tyne and Wear HER(8789): King's Walk, Quadrangle gateway - Details
8789
Newcastle
King's Walk, Quadrangle gateway
Newcastle
NZ26NW
Education
University
University
20TH CENTURY
Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932
Structure
This structure was listed Grade II in 1987 with the following description:
'Gateway, part of Art Department. 1911 by W. H. Knowles for Armstrong College. Dark red Flemish bond brick with ashlar dressings; roof of plain tiles. Tudor style. Gabled front of 3 storeys, one bay. Paired moulded arches with blind tracery above containing statue of Edward VII in central niche. Gothic-lettered Latin legend in frieze below pierced parapet. Upper floors, recessed between wide full-height buttresses, contain 2-storey canted bay with large royal arms in panel between floors. Stone mullioned and transomed windows. Top battlemented parapet with corner pinnacles.'
424730
565040
NZ424730565040
Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural and Historic Interest, 14/354; Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach and Catherine Morris, 2000, Public Sculpture of North East England, p 141-2; Grace McCombie, 2009, Newcastle and Gateshead - Pevsner Architectural Guide, p. 30; https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1024828