Listed building outline

Miners Memorial

Field	Value	Fact links
Reference	1041386	Facts
Prefix	listed-building-outline	Facts
Name	Miners Memorial	Facts
Dataset	Listed building outline	no fact link
Organisation	Northumberland County Council	no fact link
Start date	1986-12-18	no fact link
End date		no fact link
Entry date	2010-06-03	Facts
Typology	geography	no fact link
Geometry	`MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.549718 55.189035, -1.54979 55.189032, -1.549785 55.188991, -1.549713 55.188994, -1.549718 55.189035)))` `MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.549718 55.189035, -1.54979 55.189032, -1.549785 55.188991, -1.549713 55.188994, -1.549718 55.189035)))`	Facts
Point	`POINT (-1.549751 55.189013)`	Facts
Notes	ASHINGTON SIXTH AVENUE NZ 28 NE NZ 2833 8706 (North side) Ashington 2/27 Miners' Memorial in Hirst Park II Memorial, 1923. White granite with bronze plaques and figure. Square plan, set on stepped platform with low pyramid-capped pier at each corner. Moulded base, and string which is arched over drinking fountains on north and south; plaque on east has bas-relief of colliery scene and plaque on west inscription: 'ERECTED BY THE MINERS AND DEPUTIES TRADE-UNION BRANCHES IN THE ASHINGTON GROUP OF COLLIERIES ...... IN MEMORY OF THEIR FELLOW WORKMEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE WOODHORN COLLIERY EXPLOSION ON SUNDAY, AUG. 13 1916' followed by the names of 3 stonemen, 2 putters and 8 deputies. Laurel wreath on east-below moulded cap which carries life-size sculpture of deputy holding up safety lamp. Safety lamp missing from sculpture at time of survey. LISTING AMENDED 03-JUN-2010: Memorial, 1923, by W H Knowles and John Reid. Re-erected in 1991 at Woodhorn Colliery Museum. MATERIALS: Bronze figure on a white granite plinth and pedestal with low relief bronze panels. PLAN: Square A stepped base with a low pyramid-capped pier at each corner carries a tall tapering granite pedestal with a moulded base. A moulded string is arched over drinking fountains on the north and south sides, a plaque on the east side bearing a low relief colliery scene and a plaque on the west side carrying the inscription: ERECTED BY THE MINERS AND/DEPUTIES TRADE-/UNION BRANCHES IN THE ASHINGTON GROUP/OF COLLIERIES (ASSISTED/BY DONATIONS FROM THE/ASHINGTON AND CO. LTD., THE NORTHUMBERLAND/MINERS ASSOCIATION, THE NORTHUMBERLAND/DEPUTIES ASSOCIATIONS AND FRIENDS)/IN MEMORY OF THEIR FELLOW WORKMEN WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN THE WOODHORN COLLIERY EXPLOSION ON SUNDAY, AUG. 13 1916 Followed by the names of three stonemen, two putters and eight deputies. A laurel wreath carved in relief is set immediately below a moulded cap which carries a life-size sculpture of a mining deputy holding up a safetly lamp. HISTORY: This colliery disaster occurred on Sunday 13 August 1916 in the Main Seam at Woodhorn Colliery, when a repairing shift was in the mine for the purpose of setting steel girders as roof supports. As the work was of a special nature the shift was compsed of eight deputies and five other persons sent in to assist them. The explosion which occurred was caused by the presence of inflammable gas within the seam. Eleven men were killed outright and two others never regained consciousness. The memorial was designed by William Henry Knowles (1857-1943) and sculpted by John Reid (born c.1890). Knowles was a renowned Newcastle architect who has a number of Grade II listed buildings to his name, notably several buildings which are now part of the University of Newcastle including the King Edward VII School of Art (1911) and the School of Bacteriology (1922). He was also a respected archaeologist and authority on Hadrian's Wall who directed and reported on the excavations at Corstopitum between 1907 and 1914. Reid was a Master of Sculpture at Armstrong College, Newcastle and his Royal Tank Regiment war memorial, Newcastle upon Tyne is listed at Grade II. SOURCES: Paul Usherwood, Jeremy Beach, Catherine Morris Public Sculpture of North-East England (2000) REASON FOR DESIGNATION: The Miners Memorial at Woodhorn Colliery is designated Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a well executed monument in bronze and white granite in the style of a war memorial but to a civilian accident; * It was designed by the renowned architect W H Knowles, and incorporates a bronze statue by the sculptor John Reid; * The work commemorates a colliery disaster during The Great War, whose impact on the community was all the greater given the absence of many men serving in France at the time; * The pose of its subject, a pit deputy searching for gas with the aid of a safety lamp, is unusual and conveys strongly the message of 'safety first'.	Facts
Listed building	1041386	Facts

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