Braystones Tower
BRAYSTONES TOWER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145927
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Braystones Tower
- Statutory Address:
- BRAYSTONES TOWER
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- Reference:
- IOE01/01577/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145927
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Braystones Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRAYSTONES TOWER
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:
- BRAYSTONES TOWER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Lowside Quarter
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 00842 05988
Details
The following building shall be added:-
NY 00 NW LOWSIDE QUARTER BRAYSTONES TOWER
11/1 II
Memorial tower. Erected 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee;
became a First World War memorial in addtion, 1920. Snecked sandstone rubble with
roughly dressed quoins and tooled dressings. Tower (formerly floored, now gutted)
3 stages with battlemented parapet (slightly corbelled) and corner turret. Doorway
and windows (one to each floor to each elevation) under dropped labels. Original
commemorative tablet records the names of local worthies present at its unveiling
(June 1897); another tablet records the names of those men of Braystone who served
in the Great War. Braystone Tower is a prominent landmark from both the countryside
around and the sea.
Listing NGR: NY0084205988
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, 2 February 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 351971
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 2 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/67140
War Memorials Online, accessed 2 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/168324
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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