War Memorial Clocktower
WAR MEMORIAL CLOCKTOWER, KENYON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165240
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial Clocktower
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL CLOCKTOWER, KENYON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1165240
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial Clocktower
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL CLOCKTOWER, KENYON LANE
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:
- WAR MEMORIAL CLOCKTOWER, KENYON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Chorley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wheelton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 60010 21206
Details
SD 62 SW,
6/209
WHEELTON,
KENYON LANE,
War Memorial Clock Tower
II
Clock tower. Probably c.1920. Rock-faced snecked gritstone with quoins,
slate spirelet. Square plan. Base of four low steps. Gothic style: on east
side a 2-centred arched doorway chamfered in two orders, with long-and-short
jamb-stones and voussoirs, above this a large inset rectangular panel
containing a metal plate lettered (in capitals) "To commemorate the
glorious memory of the men of Heapey and Wheelton who fell in the Great War
1914-1918"; 2nd stage has a trefoiled recess containing a small louvred
opening, and a projecting semi-circular sill (like a bowl), 3rd stage has a
clock face in chamfered circular surround enclosed by a square hoodmould
with foliated stops; top stage has a corbel table to a chamfered coping and
pierced square battlements surrounding a spirelet with swept slate cladding
and a weathervane. All other sides have clock faces, rear resembles front
but has no door, north side has no other feature, and south side has two
lettered panels, the upper displaying 46 names and the lower headed
1939-1945 listing 12 names.
Listing NGR: SD6001021206
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:
- 184463
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 2 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/555
War Memorials Online, accessed 2 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/151353
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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