Imago - 'The Butterfly Gate'

'Imago' is the offical name of the galvanised steel gate on the Killingworth Waggonway entrance to the Rising Sun Country Park, although it is locally referred to as 'The Butterfly Gate'. Designed by William Pym, it was unveiled on the 17th December 1996. The butterfly depicted is actually a peppered moth, chosen to symbolise change in the surrounding landscape. An inscription along the left side reads: "Patiently the earth's wounds close. The womb heals of its sons. As bark over a torn branch grows" - Text from 'The Healing Spring', a poem by Kathleen Raine (1943).

The words 'Me, Mine, Magic, Mirage, Imago, I'm, I am, I age, Image, Imago' are formed on the arched cage to the entrance.