Neville Hall and Wood Memorial Hall, Westgate Road
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Description
"Offices, library and lecture theatre built in 1870 by A.M. Dunn for the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers. The massive, Victorian Gothic design is enhanced using bands of a deeper red coloured sandstone and Shap granite columns at the entrance. The building commemorates Newcastle's former pre-eminence in coal mining and the coal trade. It houses the world's most significant mining library and related primary material. The upper floors above the lecture theatre and book store are occupied by the Wood Memorial Hall, the Institute's library. It is double-height with galleries on two sides and with stained glass windows at each end commemorating Nicholas Wood of Hetton, first President of the Institute, who died 19 December 1865. Tyne and Wear HER(8709): Newcastle, Westgate Road, Neville Hall and Wood Memorial Hall. Behind the railings on the front of the building, under a layer of concrete, lie the lower courses of the south face of Hadrian's Wall, the line of which is now followed by Westgate Road, heading west from Newcastle" Photo by Andrew Curtis, 2010, and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. -
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Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1690255
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