CENOTAPH, WITH MEMORIAL GATES, GATEPIERS AND SCREEN WALLS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1137094
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1988
- Statutory Address:
- CENOTAPH, WITH MEMORIAL GATES, GATEPIERS AND SCREEN WALLS, PARK ROAD
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CENOTAPH, WITH MEMORIAL GATES, GATEPIERS AND SCREEN WALLS, PARK ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 49210 19106
Details
MIDDLESBROUGH PARK ROAD.
NZ 41 NE (4919)
3/62 Cenotaph, with
memorial gates,
gatepiers and screen
walls.
G.V. II
Cenotaph, with gates gatepiers and screen walls, at entrance to Albert Park,
1922 by Brierley and Rutherford (York), and Messrs Coxhead (Middlesbrough),
masons. Tablets by Birmingham Guild Ltd. Gates renewed 1981. Polished
grey Aberdeen granite ashlar cenotaph, iron gates, Portland stone ashlar
gatepiers and walls, and bronze tablets. Cenotaph c.17m west of wide
gateway with flanking pedestrian gateways, screen walls and short projecting
end returns and terminal piers. Cenotaph: rectangular-plan pedestal and
truncated shaft, supporting deep stepped and moulded base of chest tomb,
with gadrooned band and panelled tablets on sides and ends. North and south
faces of shaft inscribed: "THE GLORIOUS DEAD 1914-1919, 1939-1945". On ends
of shaft and pedestal pilaster strips flanked at heads by bronze husk drops
and topped by bronze wreaths. Pedestal on 2 broad steps, shaped at ends,
and with glinters at angles. 2-leaf central gates and one-leaf pedestrian
gates. Original side panels with elaborate scrolls and strapwork and
similar crestings. Fielded-panelled gatepiers, with moulded plinths, deep
cornices and ornamented urn finials. Screen walls have banded rusticated
pilaster strips between groups of tablets; stepped plinth, cornice and
similar piers at ends. Tablets, in moulded surrounds, have raised lettering
recording names of fallen in both World Wars; 12 tablets on each wall.
Faceted ball finials on end piers. East faces of walls have plain raised
panels.
Listing NGR: NZ4921019106
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, 7 February 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59769
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 7 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/113682
War Memorials Register, accessed 7 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/9697
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 7 Cleveland Part 13 Durham Part 41 Tyne and Wear,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
