War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, ASHBOURNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268666
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, ASHBOURNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1268666
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1996
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, ASHBOURNE ROAD
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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, ASHBOURNE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Leek
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 98709 56491
Details
LEEK
SJ9856SE ASHBOURNE ROAD
611-1/7/16 (North side)
War Memorial
II
Clock tower, built as war memorial. Portland stone, ashlar-
channelled to lower stage. 1924-5, restored 1994. By Percy
Worthington. Door to tower, and inscribed bronze panels in
advanced moulded architraves in each face. Upper stage has
glazed doors with balconettes, and paired round-arched
windows, clock in laurel wreath. Names of WWI battles
inscribed in frieze below pyramidal stone roof.
The tower is raised up steps with flanking wall pierced by
cast-iron or bronze gates, and with cast-iron or bronze lamp
standards on angles. Memorial panels for WWII on flanking
wall.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the war memorial was the gift to the town of
Sir Arthur Nicholson (a local silk manufacturer), and his
wife, in memory of their son, Lieutenant Basil Lee Nicholson
and other local men killed in WWI.
Listing NGR: SJ9870956491
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:
- 461590
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/13742
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/110063
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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