War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, NELSON STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211793
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, NELSON STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211793
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, NELSON STREET
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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.
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, NELSON STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47908 61530
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NE NELSON STREET
1685-1/7/197 (South side (off))
War Memorial
GV II
War memorial. Dedicated in 1924. Sandstone ashlar and bronze.
A simple screen wall rising in steps to a taller central
section against which stands a bronze statue representing
Victory - a winged woman crowned with a laurel wreath and
carrying a palm frond. To either side, under the inscribed
text in Roman lettering: IN HONOURED MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF
LANCASTER/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/ THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919,
are 5 tall recessed panels of bronze, bearing the names of the
more than 1000 men (including 63 sets of brothers) who died.
In front of the statue, and slightly lower, is a stone
tomb-chest flanked by square bronze vases which bears on
bronze plates on its top the names of the 300 or so who died
in the Second World War, and in Korea, with, on the front, the
dates 1939-1945.
Listing NGR: SD4790861530
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:
- 383228
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 2 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/3307
War Memorials Online, accessed 2 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/119324
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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