First World War Memorial
FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL, SWAN SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246130
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-2001
- List Entry Name:
- First World War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL, SWAN SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1246130
- Date first listed:
- 31-May-2001
- List Entry Name:
- First World War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL, SWAN SQUARE
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:
- FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL, SWAN SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 86944 49819
Details
STOKE ON TRENT
613-1/0/10059 SWAN SQUARE
31-MAY-01 Burslem
First World War Memorial
GV II
First World War memorial. Circa 1920. Pink sandstone ashlar. Rectangular on plan, in the form of a large pedestal with a moulded plinth, a moulded cornice and a niche on the front containing a figure of a soldier with a bowed head, a rifle and helmet. Above the niche the date 1914-1919. Around the memorial an area is chained off by small plain stone piers linked by chains.
Listing NGR: SJ8693549790
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, 19 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487555
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2033
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/155364
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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