Victoria Hall Disaster Memorial in Mowbray Park is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1994. A C19 Memorial.
Victoria Hall Disaster Memorial in Mowbray Park
- WRENN ID
- cold-lintel-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sunderland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 October 1994
- Type
- Memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Memorial to the Victoria Hall Disaster, 1884 by sculptor W G Brooker.
MATERIALS: a white marble statue on a grey stone pedestal.
DESCRIPTION: situated within the north-east part of Mowbray Park. A corniced pedestal has a stepped base with a wreath carved onto the front dado face. It bears an expressive, life-size figure of a robed and seated grieving mother holding a dead child across her left knee. The figure, with arm and head thrown back in despair is derived from the classical figure of Niobe mourning her dead children. The inscription on the front face of the pedestal, beneath the carved wreath reads: ERECTED/TO COMMEMORATE/ THE CALAMITY WHICH TOOK PLACE/IN THE VICTORIA HALL, SUNDERLAND/ON SATURDAY 16 JUNE 1883/BY WHICH 183 CHILDREN LOST THEIR LIVES.
Detailed Attributes
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.