War Memorial opposite Railway Terrace

War Memorial opposite Railway Terrace, High Street

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1208443
Date first listed:
17-Oct-1994
Statutory Address:
War Memorial opposite Railway Terrace, High Street
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1208443
Date first listed:
17-Oct-1994
Statutory Address 1:
War Memorial opposite Railway Terrace, High Street

Location

Statutory Address:
War Memorial opposite Railway Terrace, High Street

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

District:
Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
NZ 35405 56807

Details

NZ35NE
920-1/4/282

SUNDERLAND
South Hylton
HIGH STREET, (east side)
War Memorial opposite Railway Terrace

II
War memorial. c1919. Granite monument with wrought-iron railings. Railings with double top rails and some waved, some scrolled uprights, form front boundary to War Memorial with two steps, the upper inscribed GREAT WAR. to tapered shaft. Shaft has scroll on wreath on plinth, names on tall shaft with interrupted cornice, and raised segmental centre over top panel with low relief sword.


Listing NGR: NZ3540556807

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online,the War Memorials Register and North East War Memorials Project. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 17 September 2018.

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391476
Legacy System:
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Sources

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War Memorials Register, accessed 7 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/60
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/251887
North East War Memorials Project, accessed 17 September 2018 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=8624

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