WAR MEMORIAL WEST OF JUNCTION WITH BILLY HILL

WAR MEMORIAL WEST OF JUNCTION WITH BILLY HILL, B6299

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279295
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL WEST OF JUNCTION WITH BILLY HILL
Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL WEST OF JUNCTION WITH BILLY HILL, B6299

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1279295
Date first listed:: 05-Jun-1987
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL WEST OF JUNCTION WITH BILLY HILL
Statutory Address 1:: WAR MEMORIAL WEST OF JUNCTION WITH BILLY HILL, B6299

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 WEST OF JUNCTION WITH BILLY HILL, B6299

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District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ 16440 37766

Details

CROOK AND WILLINGTON B 6299 (South side) NZ 13 NE Stanley 24/17 War memorial west of junction with Billy Hill GV II

War memorial, walls and railings. Granite pedestal and statue; ashlar curb and piers; wrought iron railings. Seated life-size figure of woman in classical drapery in dejected posture, right hand holding wreath, on tall square pedestal with wide base, swag-decorated frieze and wide cornice. Names of dead 1914- 1919 and 1939-1945 on pedestal. Wrought iron rail on 4 short posts on step. Curb has 4 pyramidal-coped low piers on each side; centre of each block has raised rusticated panel. Enclosure of plain railings and gate with flattened pointed heads and square principals with pointed heads.

Listing NGR: NZ1644037766

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, 24 July 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 403512
Legacy System:: LBS

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War Memorials Online, accessed 7 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/240131
War Memorials Register, accessed 24 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/71421

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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.