Greasbrough War Memorial and Railed Enclosure
GREASBROUGH WAR MEMORIAL AND RAILED ENCLOSURE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132741
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Greasbrough War Memorial and Railed Enclosure
- Statutory Address:
- GREASBROUGH WAR MEMORIAL AND RAILED ENCLOSURE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1132741
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Greasbrough War Memorial and Railed Enclosure
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREASBROUGH WAR MEMORIAL AND RAILED ENCLOSURE, CHURCH 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:
- GREASBROUGH WAR MEMORIAL AND RAILED ENCLOSURE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 41698 95723
Details
SK49NW ROTHERHAM CHURCH STREET
(south side),
Greasbrough
2/18 Greasbrough
War Memorial and
railed enclosure
GV II
War memorial and railed enclosure. 1925 by James Totty of Rotherham (Rotherham
Advertiser). Ashlar limestone, wrought-iron gates and railings, cast-iron lamp
standards and urns. Small cenotaph in the form of a triumphal arch; garden with
railed enclosure has double gate flanked by lamp standards facing onto Church Street.
Monument has plinth beneath plaques bearing dedications to,and names of,men and
women lost in the 1914-18 and 1939-45 wars. Within arch a vessel with eternal
flame set beneath trabeated opening; swags above arch. Monument flanked by urns
by Yates and Hayward of Rotherham. Scrolled gates; lampstandards with light
fittings in lyre-shaped brackets; plain railings.
Rotherham Advertiser, November 14th, 1925, p14.
Listing NGR: SK4169895723
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:
- 335650
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rotherham Advertiser in 14 November, (1925), 14
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 31 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/52837
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/251745
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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