Angel of the North Angel of the North The Angel of the North is a contemporary sculpture, designed by Antony Gormley, located in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England. Completed in 1998, it is a steel sculpture of an angel, tall, with wings measuring across. The wings do not stand straight sideways, but are angled 3.5 degrees forward; Gormley did this to create "a sense of embrace". The angel like much of Gormley's other work is based on a cast of his body. It stands on the hill of Birtley, at Low Eighton in Lamesley, overlooking the A1 and A167 roads into Tyneside, and the
Order of the Peacock Angel the fingers spread out (perhaps to represent the tail of the peacock) on the left breast, just above the heart." Some members are said to keep live peacocks. Edward D. Hoch's 1965 short novel, "People of the Peacock", featured an "Order of the Peacock Angel" which matches the description given in "Secret Societies Yesterday and Today": The novel describes a chapter of the organization in the United States run by a British emigrant. In Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson's 1975 "The Illuminatus! Trilogy", "Order of the Peacock Angel" appears in letterhead as the title of an organization taking part