Carillon Tower
CARILLON TOWER, QUEEN'S PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074532
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Carillon Tower
- Statutory Address:
- CARILLON TOWER, QUEEN'S PARK
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- Date:
- 1999-08-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/02120/04
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1074532
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Carillon Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- CARILLON TOWER, QUEEN'S PARK
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:
- CARILLON TOWER, QUEEN'S PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Charnwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 53364 19377
Details
SK 51 NW QUEEN'S PARK
5/78
Carillon Tower
II
War Memorial Tower, 1922-3 by Walter Tapper. Portland stone basement, brick tower
with Portland stone dressings, copper bell-storey and lantern. Classical style.
Double doors to west open into ground floor museum room, lit in each face by a
square-headed window and above, a round-headed window with lugged architrave and
keystone, and leaded panes. Above this a similar window, then an oculus, then a
small round-headed opening. Unobtrusive, rectangular windows in the north face
light the staircase in the north-east corner. Small square recesses scattered
throughout brickwork. Arcaded and balustraded bell-storey carrying octagonal
parapet and lantern, surmounted by ball and cross. Inscribed above entrance, "This
tower was erected in grateful memory of the men of Loughborough who gave their lives
for freedom in the Great War 1914-1918". Bronze plaques recessed in basement to
east and west record names of the dead and, added to south, those who died in World
War II. Square, paved and balustraded enclosure, with wide openings on each side.
Listing NGR: SK5336419377
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, 19 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189449
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/14738
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/109113
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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