FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, PARAGON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291989
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, PARAGON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1291989
Date first listed:: 21-Jan-1994
List Entry Name:: FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, PARAGON SQUARE

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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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Statutory Address:: FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, PARAGON SQUARE

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District:: City of Kingston upon Hull (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TA 09298 28808

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 30/03/2017

TA 0928 NW, 680-1/21/266

KINGSTON UPON HULL, PARAGON SQUARE (East side), First World War Memorial and attached railings

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War memorial, by sculptor T. Harold Hughes, 1923. Erected 1924. Granite and Portland stone with bronze railings. Stepped base carrying a pylon-shaped monument with moulded plinth and plain cornice. The front face has an attached credence, and above this an inscription and a coat of arms in a wreath. In front of the pylon, a separate tapered pedestal. On either side, a sloping coped wall, returned at the ends to form square enclosures, and ending in pedestals topped with urns. In front, low bronze railings enclosing a garden, with posts in the form of lions' heads.

Listing NGR: TA0929828808

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, 1 February 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 387691
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Neave, D & S, Hull, Pevsner Architectural Guide, (2010), 134
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 1 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/89239
War Memorials Register, accessed 1 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/35180

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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.