War Memorial

WAR MEMORIAL, ARCHER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1025324
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
War Memorial
Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL, ARCHER STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1025324
Date first listed:
19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:
War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:
WAR MEMORIAL, ARCHER STREET

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL, ARCHER STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NZ 31112 67095

Details

WALLSEND ARCHER STREET (south side, off)
NZ 36 NW
7/144 War Memorial
G.V. II
War Memorial. Circa 1918 for Borough of Wallsend. Granite and bronze. Bronze
angel of victory on sphere on very tall scroll-topped obelisk. Palm decoration
to corner panels of plinth on stepped base. South panel commemorates dead of
First World War; inscription on step those of Second. Top of plinth inscribed
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.


Listing NGR: NZ3111267095


This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 7 February 2017.

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Legacy System number:
303392
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

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War Memorials Register, accessed 7 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2128
War Memorials Online, accessed 7 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/168166

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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