War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240638
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, THE GREEN
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- Date:
- 2004-08-08
- Reference:
- IOE01/12723/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240638
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, THE GREEN
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, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Speldhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 54216 39153
Details
TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST THE GREEN (south side),LANGTON
GREEN
7/494 War Memorial
GV II
War Memorial. Circa 1919 with an extra plaque added 1946. Sandstone ashlar.
Tall Gothic-style cross in memory of those killed in the First World War.
Tall and slightly tapering octagonal shaft with moulded cap with cross sitting
on top. Its own shaft has small gabled buttresses and cross itself a kind of
fleuree design. Main shaft in a chamfered socket stone on a tall pedestal
with moulded top. Its corners are chamfered. Wider chamfers at top enriched
with shields carved with Sacred Emblems and it tapers below through a stop to
a narrower chamfer. The plaque on the south side praises the dead of the
First World War and plaques on the other sides record their names. Pedestal
on an octagonal 4-step plinth on a paved base. A brass plaque on the top step
has been set in to commemorate the local dead of the Second World War.
Listing NGR: TQ5435539273
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, 1 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439020
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 1 December 2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/41292
War Memorials Online, accessed 1 December 2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/83284
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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