First World War Memorial

FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL, SWAN SQUARE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1246130
Date first listed:
31-May-2001
Statutory Address:
FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL, SWAN SQUARE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1246130
Date first listed:
31-May-2001
Statutory Address 1:
FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL, SWAN SQUARE

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.

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487555
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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

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