War Memorial With Surrounding Railings

WAR MEMORIAL WITH SURROUNDING RAILINGS, GARSTANG ROAD JUNCTION WITH WEETON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1164089
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
War Memorial With Surrounding Railings
Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL WITH SURROUNDING RAILINGS, GARSTANG ROAD JUNCTION WITH WEETON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1164089
Date first listed:
11-Jun-1986
List Entry Name:
War Memorial With Surrounding Railings
Statutory Address 1:
WAR MEMORIAL WITH SURROUNDING RAILINGS, GARSTANG ROAD JUNCTION WITH WEETON ROAD

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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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL WITH SURROUNDING RAILINGS, GARSTANG ROAD JUNCTION WITH WEETON ROAD

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

County:
Lancashire
District:
Fylde (District Authority)
Parish:
Medlar-with-Wesham
National Grid Reference:
SD4174232915

Details

MEDLAR WITH WESHAM GARSTANG ROAD
SD 43 SW
junction with WEETON ROAD
9/42 War Memorial with surrounding
- railings

- II

War memorial, early 1920's. Limestone pedestal and statue, iron railings on
sandstone base. Memorial has square plinth, tapered pedestal with recessed
panels, and a moulded cornice, on top of which is a statue of a soldier in a
cap standing with his hands resting on the butt of a rifle with muzzle to the
ground. East panel of pedestal lettered "IN/MEMORY OF/THE/MEDLAR AND
WESHAM/HEROES/WHO FELL/IN THE/WORLD WARS/1914-1918/AND/1939-1945/THEIR NAMES
SHALL/LIVE FOR EVER"; other 3 panels lettered with the names. Small elongated
enclosure with rounded ends, simple iron railings each of the long sides
having 3 ornamental panels with heart-shapes at the top. (Victorian iron
gaslamp standard, with altered lantern, inside the enclosure, is not included
in the item).


Listing NGR: SD4174232915


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.

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Legacy System number:
183612
Legacy System:
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Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 2 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/584
War Memorials Online, accessed 2 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/200063

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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