Amble War Memorial Clock Tower

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-Sep-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-Sep-1988
List Entry Name:: Amble War Memorial Clock Tower
Statutory Address 1:: Amble War Memorial Clock Tower, Queen Street

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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.

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
North East War Memorials Project, accessed 6 September 2018 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=6217
War Memorials Online, accessed 8 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/90828
War Memorials Register, accessed 8 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/33523

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