Wall and War Memorial in Front of St Paul's Church

WALL AND WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF ST PAUL'S CHURCH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1084409
Date first listed:
07-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:
Wall and War Memorial in Front of St Paul's Church
Statutory Address:
WALL AND WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF ST PAUL'S CHURCH
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1084409
Date first listed:
07-Jun-1974
List Entry Name:
Wall and War Memorial in Front of St Paul's Church
Statutory Address 1:
WALL AND WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF ST PAUL'S CHURCH

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WALL AND WAR MEMORIAL IN FRONT OF ST PAUL'S CHURCH

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

County:
Kent
District:
Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 56656 39267

Details

RUSTHALL COMMON
1.
1746
Wall and War Memorial in
front of St Paul's Church
TQ 53 NE 10/311
II
2.
The wall is contemporary with St Paul's Church. About 4 feet high of Tunbridge
Wells ashlar. On the right hand side are 2 stone gate piers with pyramidal caps.
The later stone war memorial, in the form of a modified cross rises from the
centre of the wall. In front of it are 3 stone steps leading to a stone plant
trough.


Listing NGR: TQ5910539794


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, 1 December 2016.

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168156
Legacy System:
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Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 01/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2264
War Memorials Online, accessed 01/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/120312

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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