War Memorial With Railings and Gates
WAR MEMORIAL WITH RAILINGS AND GATES, BURDON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279917
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial With Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL WITH RAILINGS AND GATES, BURDON ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279917
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1994
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial With Railings and Gates
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL WITH RAILINGS AND GATES, BURDON 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 WITH RAILINGS AND GATES, BURDON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sunderland (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 39796 56685
Details
SUNDERLAND
NZ3956NE BURDON ROAD
920-1/20/25 (East side)
War Memorial with railings and gates
GV II
World War I war memorial. c1925. Signed R.A.RAY ARCA ART &
SCULPT. Granite with bronze figure. Railings and gates
wrought-iron. Angel of Victory holding globe on tall Tuscan
column with laurel leaf band at base, egg and dart echinus.
Tall moulded plinth has laurel wreaths and upturned torches
carved in low relief; and inscriptions on W: A TRIBUTE TO OUR
GLORIOUS DEAD ; on N 1914-1918; on S 1939-1945. 4 steps up to
platform are flanked by dwarf walls with nail-head studs in
coping. Enclosing railings and gates have cross-in-circle
motif, paired principal uprights and top rails.
4 lamp standards a short distance from corners are
contemporary and are listed individually (qv).
Listing NGR: NZ3979656685
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, 16 June 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391398
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 June 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/72721
War Memorials Online, accessed 16 June 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/251888
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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