Drinking Fountain, Trough, War Memorial, Steps and Railings, South-east of No. 39
DRINKING FOUNTAIN, TROUGH, WAR MEMORIAL, STEPS AND RAILINGS, SOUTH-EAST OF NO. 39, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139667
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain, Trough, War Memorial, Steps and Railings, South-east of No. 39
- Statutory Address:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN, TROUGH, WAR MEMORIAL, STEPS AND RAILINGS, SOUTH-EAST OF NO. 39, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139667
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Drinking Fountain, Trough, War Memorial, Steps and Railings, South-east of No. 39
- Statutory Address 1:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN, TROUGH, WAR MEMORIAL, STEPS AND RAILINGS, SOUTH-EAST OF NO. 39, HIGH STREET
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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:
- DRINKING FOUNTAIN, TROUGH, WAR MEMORIAL, STEPS AND RAILINGS, SOUTH-EAST OF NO. 39, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Redcar and Cleveland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Loftus
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ7231918192
Details
LOFTUS HIGH STREET
NZ 7218
(in middle of road),
Loftus.
4/32 Drinking fountain, trough,
war memorial, steps and
railings, south-east of
No. 39
- II
Drinking fountain and trough, late c19; war memorial, steps and railings 1922
by W. Arrowsmith and B.J. Wormleighton. Dressed sandstone, steel, smooth
Cornish granite war memorial and concrete steps. Crescent-plan retaining
wall, with flat copings, ramped up to central semicircular-headed niche with
vermiculate rusticated voussoirs. Iron lion-mask water spout fixed to
mosaic panel in niche above segmental-plan trough. Metal lettering applied
to wall above niche:
"THESE LAID THE WORLD AWAY POURED OUT
THE RED SWEET WINE OF YOUTH GAVE UP THE YEARS TO BE OF WORK AND JOY
AND THAT UNHOPED SERENE THAT MEN CALL AGE".
Railings, with stick balusters and metal wreath ornaments, on crescent wall
and walls flanking the curved stairs leading up to memorial. Celtic cross
on tapered shaft with chamfered square base and plinth. Metal wreath at
base of south face of shaft. Metal plates bear names of fallen in 1914-18
war and in 1939-45 war. Names of designer and patron in metal lettering on
base. Fountain disused at time of survey.
Listing NGR: NZ7231918192
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:
- 60185
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 7 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/9527
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/251737
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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