Amble War Memorial Clock Tower
Amble War Memorial Clock Tower, Queen Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041896
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Amble War Memorial Clock Tower
- Statutory Address:
- Amble War Memorial Clock Tower, Queen Street
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041896
- Date first listed:
- 15-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Amble War Memorial Clock Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- Amble War Memorial Clock Tower, Queen Street
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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:
- Amble War Memorial Clock Tower, Queen Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Amble By the Sea
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 26659 04616
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10 October 2024 to update the name, address and reformat the text to current standards
NU 2604
13/57
AMBLE
QUEEN STREET (South side)
Amble War Memorial Clock Tower
(Formerly listed as Clock Tower War Memorial
GV
II
Clock Tower as World War I memorial, 1925 by Will Burton, council surveyor. Squared stone with ashlar dressings; white marble panels with leaded inscriptions, wrought-iron dwarf rails.
Slender square three-stage tower. Three-stepped base carries tower with angle pilasters, stepped-and-chamfered plinth and moulded strings. Dwarf rails with knob-topped twist standards and twist rails link front faces of pilasters. Lower stage: north face has twin panels in recessed chamfered surrounds, 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF AMBLE WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918' and 'THE SITE FOR THIS MEMORIAL WAS GIVEN BY E.M. LAWSON-SMITH ESQ IN MEMORY OF HIS TWO SONS WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR', with inserted World War II plaque below; side faces have panels with names of fallen; boarded door to rear.
Second stage has tall slatted square-headed openings and top stage clockfaces in keyed surrounds. Parapet has moulded coping and square pyramid-topped finials at corners.
Unveiled Saturday May 9th 1925.
Listing NGR: NU2665904616
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online, the War Memorials Register and North East War Memorials Projects. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 6 September 2018.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236725
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 8 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/33523
War Memorials Online, accessed 8 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/90828
North East War Memorials Project, accessed 6 September 2018 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=6217
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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