WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF CUNARD BUILDING

WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF CUNARD BUILDING, GEORGES PIER HEAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1052301
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1975
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF CUNARD BUILDING
Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF CUNARD BUILDING, GEORGES PIER HEAD

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Date:: 2006-10-09
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1052301
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1975
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Jun-1985
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF CUNARD BUILDING
Statutory Address 1:: WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF CUNARD BUILDING, GEORGES PIER HEAD

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF CUNARD BUILDING, GEORGES PIER HEAD

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

District:: Liverpool (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 33874 90251

Details

SJ 3390 GEORGES PIER HEAD L3

27/504 War Memorial in front of Cunard Building (formerly listed 14.3.75 under Pier Head) G.V. II

First and Second World War Memorial, c.1920. Granite pedestal and tall unfluted column with copper capital and anchor ornament on rope fillet. Copper figure of Victory on top, nude, holding laurel wreath, with shield and drapery, standing on a ship's prow. Shaft is columna rostrata, i.e. is decorated with beaks of ships.

Listing NGR: SJ3387490251

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, 13 March 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 214152
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 13 March 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/121292
War Memorials Register, accessed 13 March 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1218

Legal

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