WAR MEMORIAL AT THE JUNCTION OF OLD BRISTOL ROAD AND BRIDGWATER ROAD

WAR MEMORIAL AT THE JUNCTION OF OLD BRISTOL ROAD AND BRIDGWATER ROAD, OLD BRISTOL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1251647
Date first listed:: 31-May-1985
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL AT THE JUNCTION OF OLD BRISTOL ROAD AND BRIDGWATER ROAD
Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL AT THE JUNCTION OF OLD BRISTOL ROAD AND BRIDGWATER ROAD, OLD BRISTOL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1251647
Date first listed:: 31-May-1985
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL AT THE JUNCTION OF OLD BRISTOL ROAD AND BRIDGWATER ROAD
Statutory Address 1:: WAR MEMORIAL AT THE JUNCTION OF OLD BRISTOL ROAD AND BRIDGWATER ROAD, OLD BRISTOL ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL AT THE JUNCTION OF OLD BRISTOL ROAD AND BRIDGWATER ROAD, OLD BRISTOL ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: East Brent
National Grid Reference:: ST3493251821

Details

ST35SW 5/55

EAST BRENT CP OLD BRISTOL ROAD (North side) War memorial at the junction of Old Bristol Road and Bridgwater Road

II

War Memorial. Dated 1921, repaired 1983. By Emery of Burnham-on-Sea, on plinth. Dressed stone. Plain plinth, with an angle-buttress at each corner, moulded cornice around its top. Octagonal sockets, a life size figure set at each corner in military dress, a soldier, a sailor, an airman, and a marine. Tapering chamfered shaft with a cruciform finial. Plinth inscribed with the names of The Fallen. An unusual and elaborate memorial.

Listing NGR: ST3493251821

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, 14 December 2016.

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Legacy System number:: 434384
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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War Memorials Online, accessed 14/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/140662
War Memorials Register, accessed 14/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/24737

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.