Memorial Cloister and Attached Wall at Joy Mead Recreation Ground
MEMORIAL CLOISTER AND ATTACHED WALL AT JOY MEAD RECREATION GROUND, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075279
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial Cloister and Attached Wall at Joy Mead Recreation Ground
- Statutory Address:
- MEMORIAL CLOISTER AND ATTACHED WALL AT JOY MEAD RECREATION GROUND, MAIN STREET
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- Date:
- 2006-06-13
- Reference:
- IOE01/15719/14
- Rights:
- © Mr Arthur Hanley. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1075279
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Memorial Cloister and Attached Wall at Joy Mead Recreation Ground
- Statutory Address 1:
- MEMORIAL CLOISTER AND ATTACHED WALL AT JOY MEAD RECREATION GROUND, MAIN STREET
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:
- MEMORIAL CLOISTER AND ATTACHED WALL AT JOY MEAD RECREATION GROUND, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Farthingstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 61394 55008
Details
FARTHIHGSTONE MAIN STREET
SP6155 (South side)
14/76 Memorial cloister and attached
wall at Joy Mead recreation
ground
GV II
Memorial cloister. 1930, by Talbot Brown and Fisher of Wellingborough. Dressed
ironstone and coursed ironstone rubble, Collyweston stone slate roofs. Single
storey; 2-window range. Entrance front has central 3-bay opening with 2 full and
2 half columns, and 2 semi-circular steps to central opening. Columns are
octagonal with broach stop-chamfered capitals and square abaci with recessed
panels. Two matching open windows either side with 2 pairs of stone balusters.
Moulded eaves cornice. Cloister walks within of 5 bays to long sides, 4 bays to
side walks and have open arcades of similar columns with hall-columns to corner
piers. Pairs of shallow niches with round arch heads to each angle and facing
entrance on far wall a larger central recess with moulded stone frame containing
painted stone arms of Agnew family. Bronze commemorative plate below. The walks
have shallow plaster barrel vaults; walks and cloister garth stone paved.
Attached stone wall to right of entrance front has 'keyhole' arch. The cloister
was erected by the Agnew family and commemorates World War I and their only son
Ewan Siegfried.
Listing NGR: SP6139455008
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, 10 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 360566
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/60100
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/250994
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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