War Memorial

War Memorial, Benton Road, West Allotment, Whitley Bay, NE27 0DN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184409
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: War Memorial
Statutory Address:: War Memorial, Benton Road, West Allotment, Whitley Bay, NE27 0DN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1184409
Date first listed:: 19-Feb-1986
List Entry Name:: War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: War Memorial, Benton Road, West Allotment, Whitley Bay, NE27 0DN

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: War Memorial, Benton Road, West Allotment, Whitley Bay, NE27 0DN

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District:: North Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 31261 70500

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 November 2024 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards.

NZ 37 SW 4/185 TYNEMOUTH WEST ALLOTMENT BENTON ROAD (south side) War Memorial

(Formerly listed as War Memorial, TYNEMOUTH)

II War memorial. Circa 1919. Granite and marble. Two steps to square pedestal, with plinth and cornice, supporting figure of angel holding flag in left arm and laurel wreath in outstretched right arm. Wreath carved on pedestal flanked by dates 1914 and 1919; names of dead of West Allotment, Old Allotment and district in the Great War inscribed on sides.

Listing NGR: NZ3126170500

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/218810
War Memorials Register, accessed 7 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/17815

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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.