War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, HIGHGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031908
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-2002
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, HIGHGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031908
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-2002
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, HIGHGATE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, HIGHGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 76037 30554
Details
HAWKHURST
1351/0/10013 HIGHGATE
12-SEP-02 War Memorial
GV II
War memorial. 1921. Comprises a granite monument about 10 feet high in the form of a tall square casket with panels to all sides. It has a moulded cornice with anthemion carving surmounted by a celtic cross with gadrooned base and deep plinth. The front panel has a moulded swag and inscription and the other panels have the names of the Fallen from the First World WAr. Further names of those who fell in the Second World War are inscribed on the plinth. The whole is set on a York stone base and three concrete steps with low cast iron railings.
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, 1 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489801
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 01/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/16414
War Memorials Online, accessed 01/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/107505
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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