Wallsend Memorial Hall Incorporating A First World War Memorial With Second World War Additions

Heritage listing

Details MATERIALS: brick with cast concrete to the main elevation and west gable; painted ashlar, bronze figures and plaques to the war memorial. PLAN: rectangular with a stair hall projection to the east end, occupying a corner site with main south elevation on Frank Street and west gable on Atkinson Street. A first-floor ballroom is accessed from a stair at the east end, via the main Frank Street entrance. To the ground floor a pair of halls were accessed by separate entrances from Frank Street, and the west Frank Street entrance gives entry to a rear stair leading to the ballroom back stage area. EXTERIOR: Main (south) elevation to Frank Street: symmetrical with two-storeys and nine bays; a parapet is slightly stepped over each end bay and there is a plain band at first-floor level. Each end bay has a tall keyed, arched entrance to the ground floor with a carved stone tympanum; the eastern, main entrance has a door case comprising Doric columns supporting an entablature, and is fitted with heavy, panelled double doors flanked by narrow rectangular lights. The first floor has a large two-part Venetian window incorporating Ionic pilasters with a large open pediment above. The seven bay central section has seven tall keyed, round-arched openings to the ground floor; these have windows with original fenestration to their upper parts and bays two and six have panelled doors. The middle bay has a First World War memorial comprising life-sized bronze figures of a soldier and sailor with bowed heads on column pedestals; above, in the head of the arch, there is a cast-iron relief of a ship in the mouth of the River Tyne, and in the centre a cast iron relief of a worker operating a plate-punching machine, thought to be a depiction of the Swan Hunter factory; there are bands of

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.