STATUE OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL GE BENSON AT SOUTHERN END OF BEAUMONT STREET

STATUE OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL GE BENSON AT SOUTHERN END OF BEAUMONT STREET, BEAUMONT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370777
Date first listed:: 18-May-1976
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL GE BENSON AT SOUTHERN END OF BEAUMONT STREET
Statutory Address:: STATUE OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL GE BENSON AT SOUTHERN END OF BEAUMONT STREET, BEAUMONT STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370777
Date first listed:: 18-May-1976
List Entry Name:: STATUE OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL GE BENSON AT SOUTHERN END OF BEAUMONT STREET
Statutory Address 1:: STATUE OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL GE BENSON AT SOUTHERN END OF BEAUMONT STREET, BEAUMONT STREET

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: STATUE OF LIEUTENANT COLONEL GE BENSON AT SOUTHERN END OF BEAUMONT STREET, BEAUMONT STREET

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District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hexham
National Grid Reference:: NY 93461 63922

Details

BEAUMONT STREET 1. (North-West Side) 5334 Statue of Lieut. Col. G.E. Benson at southern end of Beaumont Street NY 9363 2/162

II

2. Facing south. Circa 1910. Erected by subscription. Large bronze statue of Boer War hero striding forwards and holding binoculars. High moulded plinth below cube pedestal. Circular modern verge and flowerbed below.

Listing NGR: NY9346163922

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.

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War Memorials Online, accessed 9 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/90341
War Memorials Register, accessed 9 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/34048

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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.