War Memorial

WAR MEMORIAL, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385705
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1996
List Entry Name:
War Memorial
Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL, MAIN STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1385705
Date first listed:
26-Nov-1996
List Entry Name:
War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:
WAR MEMORIAL, MAIN STREET

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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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

Location

Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL, MAIN STREET

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

County:
Leicestershire
District:
Hinckley and Bosworth (District Authority)
Parish:
Ratby
National Grid Reference:
SK5115405900

Details

SK 50 NW
1294/4/10011

RATBY
MAIN STREET (west side)

War Memorial

II

War memorial. c1920. Portland stone. Tall square stone base raised on 3 steps with memorial inscriptions and the names of those who lost their lives in both World Wars. Topped with rocky platform surmounted by a sculpted female figure of Winged Victory.

Listing NGR: SK5115405900

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, 20 January 2017.

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Legacy System number:
471111
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 20 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/14745
War Memorials Online, accessed 20 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/109106

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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