War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142540
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL
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- Date:
- 2006-08-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/15999/28
- Rights:
- © Mr Ivor Corkell. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1142540
- Date first listed:
- 12-Sept-1989
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL
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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:
- WAR MEMORIAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Redruth
- National Grid Reference:
- SW7027441767
Details
REDRUTH VICTORIA PARK
SW 74 SW
6/315 War Memorial
II
War memorial. 1920's. Granite ashlar. Octagonal obelisk mounted on tall square
pedestal with chamfered base and diagonal buttresses, a panel in each side of
the pedestal with raised lettering, that on the west:-
THE TRIBUTE OF
REDRUTH
TO HER
GLORIOUS DEAD
1914-1918
followed by applied metal lettering:-
TO LIVE IN HEARTS
WE LEAVE BEHIND
IS NOT TO DIE
An added panel let into the chamfered base has raised lettering:-
AND IN
GRATEFUL MEMORY
OF THOSE WHO
GAVE THEIR LIVES
1939-1945
The panels in the other sides of the pedestal have names in applied metal
lettering, 161 for the 1st World War and 66 for the 2nd World War
Listing NGR: SW7027441767
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, 13 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 66880
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 13 December 2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/235275
War Memorials Register, accessed 13 December 2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/9228
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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