Churchyard Walls, Gate and War Memorial

CHURCHYARD WALLS, GATE AND WAR MEMORIAL, DIAL PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1303431
Date first listed:
01-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Churchyard Walls, Gate and War Memorial
Statutory Address:
CHURCHYARD WALLS, GATE AND WAR MEMORIAL, DIAL PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1303431
Date first listed:
01-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Churchyard Walls, Gate and War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCHYARD WALLS, GATE AND WAR MEMORIAL, DIAL PLACE

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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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCHYARD WALLS, GATE AND WAR MEMORIAL, DIAL PLACE

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Warkworth
National Grid Reference:
NU 24657 06197

Details

NU 2406 WARKWORTH DIAL PLACE
(North end)

21/304 Churchyard walls,
gate and War
Memorial
GV II

Churchyard walls, gate and war memorial. Wall probably mostly C18,
incorporating some earlier fabric; gates early C19; war memorial c.1920 by
M.H. Graham and H. Honeyman, moved to present site c.1960. Wall squared
stone; gates wrought iron; war memorial ashlar and bronze.

South wall 1.5 metres high with flat slab coping ramped up at either side of
gate near west end; square piers, with plinth and moulded pyramidal caps;
holding double gates with patterned half-rail, downswept top rail and spear-
topped bars. Incurved section of wall at south-west corner behind war
memorial: stepped base has added plaque with 1939-45 names below plaque with
names of 1914-18 war dead in keyed surround; frieze and top block, with bronze
roundel and laurel sprays, and cornice. West wall has small gate near centre,
also jambs of blocked gateway and two blocked arches further north. On north
of churchyard is 1.5-metre high retaining wall, battered in profile. East
wall has small gate near centre; north part incorporates end wall of former
tithe barn (converted into cottages c.1900) with 2 slit vents and outline of
original gable visible.

Included for group value.

Listing NGR: NU2465706197


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, 9 February 2017.

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
237195
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 9 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/33982
War Memorials Online, accessed 9 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/165319

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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