WAR MEMORIAL CIRCA 20 METRES WEST OF TOWN HALL

WAR MEMORIAL CIRCA 20 METRES WEST OF TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159632
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL CIRCA 20 METRES WEST OF TOWN HALL
Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL CIRCA 20 METRES WEST OF TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159632
Date first listed:: 14-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL CIRCA 20 METRES WEST OF TOWN HALL
Statutory Address 1:: WAR MEMORIAL CIRCA 20 METRES WEST OF TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE

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 CIRCA 20 METRES WEST OF TOWN HALL, MARKET PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ferryhill
National Grid Reference:: NZ 28792 32819

Details

NZ 23 SE FERRYHILL MARKET PLACE (East side)

6/28 War Memorial circa 20 metres west of Town Hall GV II

War memorial. Circa 1919. Granite with marble statue. Square step to rock-faced base of tapered pedestal, with plinth and cornice; swept base to statue of Durham Light Infantry soldier in casual pose, with hands clasped round barrel of rifle which rests on ground.

Inscription on plinth begins 'To the Glory of God ...' and commemorates the men of Ferryhill who died in the Great War, 1914-1918, with names inscribed on all other sides; additional inscription refers to second World War 1939-1945, and additional names are inscribed. 'Pass not this stone in sorrow but in pride/And may ye live as nobly as they died' inscribed on front plinth.

Listing NGR: NZ2879232819

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.

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War Memorials Online, accessed 7 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/144095
War Memorials Register, accessed 7 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/10307

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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.