Staffordshire County War Memorial With Flanking Walls and Gates

STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL WITH FLANKING WALLS AND GATES, VICTORIA ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298201
Date first listed:
16-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:
Staffordshire County War Memorial With Flanking Walls and Gates
Statutory Address:
STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL WITH FLANKING WALLS AND GATES, VICTORIA ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1298201
Date first listed:
16-Feb-1994
List Entry Name:
Staffordshire County War Memorial With Flanking Walls and Gates
Statutory Address 1:
STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL WITH FLANKING WALLS AND GATES, VICTORIA 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.

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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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Location

Statutory Address:
STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY WAR MEMORIAL WITH FLANKING WALLS AND GATES, VICTORIA ROAD

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

County:
Staffordshire
District:
Stafford (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 91892 22995

Details

STAFFORD

SJ9122 VICTORIA ROAD
590-1/7/98 (South East side)
Staffordshire County War Memorial
with flanking walls and gates

GV II

War memorial on square terrace with walls, and flanking walls
and gates. c1920. Ashlar and bronze. Tall memorial supporting
bronze figures. Plinth has bronze plaque with lettering above
inscription cut in stone, bronze plaque commemorating 2nd
World War to right return; imbricated torus to base of
memorial, which has roundels with cap badges to all faces and
bronze Stafford knot over inscription; top figures of winged
female and horse on rock. Terrace has low walls continued to
sides, with canted sections flanking enriched wrought-iron
paired gates, the canted sections inscribed with names of
battles of the 1st World War. An impressive grouping at west
end of Victoria Park.


Listing NGR: SJ9189222995


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.

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384052
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Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/13656
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/223569

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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.

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