War Memorial in Victory Square

War Memorial in Victory Square, Victoria Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263162
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: War Memorial in Victory Square
Statutory Address:: War Memorial in Victory Square, Victoria Road

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Date:: 1999-09-04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263162
Date first listed:: 24-Mar-1950
List Entry Name:: War Memorial in Victory Square
Statutory Address 1:: War Memorial in Victory Square, Victoria 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 in Victory Square, Victoria Road

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

District:: Hartlepool (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 50748 32502

Details

NZ 5032 10/130

HARTLEPOOL VICTORIA ROAD (south side) War Memorial in Victory Square

24.3.50

II War Memorial, 1923, by George J. Coombs (Aberdeen). Pale grey Aberdeen granite and bronze. Five-stepped terrace with corner plinths. Long base, with cyma-moulded plinth and top cornice, holds bronze plaques, with names of fallen in two World Wars, on back and front, flanking stepped pedestal of tall shaft with coved cornice and bronze wreath at head. Inserted panel in pedestal gives war dates. Bronze wreaths also on pedestal.

Listing NGR: NZ5074832502

This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online, the War Memorials Register and North East War Memorials. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 17 September 2018.

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Legacy System number:: 433120
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
North East War Memorials Project, accessed 17 September 2018 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=10775
War Memorials Online, accessed 7 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/162592
War Memorials Register, accessed 7 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1158

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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.