War Memorial in Rowley Regis Cemetery

WAR MEMORIAL IN ROWLEY REGIS CEMETERY, POWKE LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1287197
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
War Memorial in Rowley Regis Cemetery
Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL IN ROWLEY REGIS CEMETERY, POWKE LANE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1287197
Date first listed:
29-Sept-1987
List Entry Name:
War Memorial in Rowley Regis Cemetery
Statutory Address 1:
WAR MEMORIAL IN ROWLEY REGIS CEMETERY, POWKE LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL IN ROWLEY REGIS CEMETERY, POWKE LANE

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

District:
Sandwell (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SO 96352 86918

Details

SANDWELL MB POWKE LANE (off)
SO 98 NE
Rowley Regis

8/129 War Memorial in
Rowley Regis Cemetery

II

War memorial. Circa 1920. Limestone. An obelisk, inscribed on north-east
side: "Erected by John Priest Esq JP Hannadale Old Hill. Chairman of Rowley
Regis Urban District Council 1915 1916 1917 1918". Against the south-west
side stands a statue of a soldier on a base of semi-circular plan with an
inscription altered to include the dates of the Second World War.


Listing NGR: SO9635286918


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, 18 January 2017.

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Legacy System number:
219341
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Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 18 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/154447
War Memorials Register, accessed 18 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/17493

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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