WAR MEMORIAL IN QUEEN'S PARK

WAR MEMORIAL IN QUEEN'S PARK, VICTORIA AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1138682
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL IN QUEEN'S PARK
Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL IN QUEEN'S PARK, VICTORIA AVENUE

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Date:: 1999-08-26
Reference:: IOE01/01627/29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1138682
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1984
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL IN QUEEN'S PARK
Statutory Address 1:: WAR MEMORIAL IN QUEEN'S PARK, VICTORIA AVENUE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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 IN QUEEN'S PARK, VICTORIA AVENUE

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District:: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Crewe
National Grid Reference:: SJ 68729 55629

Details

SJ 65 NE FORMER BOROUGH OF CREWE VICTORIA AVENUE

1/62 War Memorial in Queen's Park

GV II

South African War Memorial, 1904 (Pevsner). Grey marble with yellow sandstone cap and bronze figure. Square moulded base, chamfered plinth with recessed corners. Memorial plaques on four faces, in bronze, surmounted by bowtell topped pediment. The north facing pediment has the former arms of the Borough with the motto "Never Behind" below the date 1899-1902. Square tapering marble column with sandstone Ionic cap supporting a near full sized statue of a soldier, with rifle, dressed in the uniform of the period.

Listing NGR: SJ6872955629

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, 26 January 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 56704
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War Memorials Online, accessed 26 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/139511
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2781

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.