Gallery > Parks and bandstands > Entrance gates leazes park

The oldest green space in Newcastle, Leazes Park has been restored and refurbished following painstaking research into the original designs. 

This includes the reintroduction of two ornate gateways into the park and cast iron boundary railings, substantial tree and shrub planting, the restoration of the lake and a new memorial garden for the 15th/19th Hussars.

Leazes Park was Newcastle’s first public park. It was designed by John Laing and opened in 1873. The park centres on a lake, and its design remained substantially intact through the 20th century, although some original features, such as the bandstand, shelter, urns and statues, were lost. Leazes Park is listed Grade II on the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest and lies within Leazes Park Conservation Area in Newcastle city centre. 

Historic features, including the Jubilee Gates - originally installed to mark Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 - boundary railings and bandstand, were replaced according to original or appropriate period designs. Statues and balustrades were repaired. 

The gates required design solutions, manufacture and fitting of the new reproduction park gates and overthrows to exactly match a surviving example and research of John Laing’s style of work. Made in wrought iron we used advanced, forge welded flat scrollwork techniques as part of our work on these gates. 

• Location

  : Newcastle