Cardinal Hume Monument – Nigel Boonham (2002)
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Cardinal Basil Hume was born in Newcastle, he was the Ninth Archbishop of Westminster and a Benedictine Monk. The sculpture stands on a flat stone plinth in the shape of the Northumbrian Island of Lindisfarne. Queen Elisabeth 11 opened the 3m high bronze and new public space at St Mary’s Cathedral in 2002.