War Memorial South of Church of All Saints With Encircling Railings
WAR MEMORIAL SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS WITH ENCIRCLING RAILINGS, WALLGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384562
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial South of Church of All Saints With Encircling Railings
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS WITH ENCIRCLING RAILINGS, WALLGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1384562
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial South of Church of All Saints With Encircling Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS WITH ENCIRCLING RAILINGS, WALLGATE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL SOUTH OF CHURCH OF ALL SAINTS WITH ENCIRCLING RAILINGS, WALLGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 58185 05640
Details
WIGAN
SD5805NW WALLGATE
24-1/7/112 (West side (off))
24/10/51 War Memorial south of Church of All
Saints, with encircling railings
GV II*
War memorial. 1925, by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Portland stone
with bronze plaques. Eleanor Cross type. Octagonal 3-stage
plinth, the centre and upper stages surrounded by rectangular
bronze plaques with names of the fallen in raised lettering,
and the upper stage with re-entrants on the south and north
sides, the south lettered:
"REMEMBER THE MEN OF WIGAN WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES TO THE GREAT
WAR 1914-1918 / AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945", and the
north:
"A GOOD LIFE HATH BUT A FEW DAYS / BUT A GOOD NAME LIVETH FOR
EVER".
High octagonal pillar with panelled sides, triangular shafts
to the corners carried up to wreath-bearing figures between
the windows of an elaborately and delicately traceried lantern
with a corona and apex cross. Curved triangular memorial
garden surrounded by dwarf walls with chamfered coping and
dwarf quatrefoiled iron railings; entrances at corners flanked
by lamp standards on octagonal plinths. Forms group with
Church of All Saints (qv).
Listing NGR: SD5818505640
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, 30 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484997
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/3236
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/119390
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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