War Memorial at North West Corner of the Hoe

WAR MEMORIAL AT NORTH WEST CORNER OF THE HOE, LOCKYER STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1113346
Date first listed:
01-May-1975
List Entry Name:
War Memorial at North West Corner of the Hoe
Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL AT NORTH WEST CORNER OF THE HOE, LOCKYER STREET
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1113346
Date first listed:
01-May-1975
Date of most recent amendment:
09-Nov-1998
List Entry Name:
War Memorial at North West Corner of the Hoe
Statutory Address 1:
WAR MEMORIAL AT NORTH WEST CORNER OF THE HOE, LOCKYER 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.

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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:
WAR MEMORIAL AT NORTH WEST CORNER OF THE HOE, LOCKYER STREET

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

District:
City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SX 47663 54051

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX4754 LOCKYER STREET, Hoe
740-1/57/291 (East side)
01/05/75 War Memorial at north-west corner of
the Hoe
(Formerly Listed as:
THE HOE, Plymouth
War Memorial at north-west Corner of
the Hoe)

GV II

War memorial. c1920 to those of Plymouth who died in World
Wars I and II. Bronze Classical female figure holding wreath,
set on granite plinth in front of polished pink granite
buttressed pier on plinth with bronze plaques. The monument is
set at the rear of a granite ashlar curved low-walled
enclosure with wide front entrance with steps flanked by
latticed balustrades.
One of a fine group of memorials on the Hoe.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-:
665).



Listing NGR: SX4766354051


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, 8 December 2016.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
473568
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 665

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 08/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/25700
War Memorials Online, accessed 08/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/98451

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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