FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL

FIRST WAR MEMORIAL, COLLEGE STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389730
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL
Statutory Address:: FIRST WAR MEMORIAL, COLLEGE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389730
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1999
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL
Statutory Address 1:: FIRST WAR MEMORIAL, COLLEGE STREET
Statutory Address 2:: FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL, COLLEGE STREET

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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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FIRST WAR MEMORIAL, COLLEGE STREET
Statutory Address:: FIRST WORLD WAR MEMORIAL, COLLEGE STREET

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Worcester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 85049 54563

Details

WORCESTER

SO8554NW COLLEGE STREET 620-1/17/187 (West side) 19/08/99 First World War Memorial (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE STREET (West side) First War Memorial)

GV II

War memorial. c1919. Limestone ashlar. Gothic Revival style. Octagonal base has 7 steps to octagonal plinth with cusped tracery to panels embellished with shields with regimental coats of arms; above a band with fleurons; battlements; surmounted by shaped base to octagonal shaft with surmounting cross with foliate decoration. Inscribed to steps: 'The county/ to her sons who gave their lives in the Great War/ 1914 1918/ and to her sons and daughters/ who fell in the Great War of/ 1939 1945'. A significant streetscape feature, forming part of the setting of Cathedral Church of Christ and St Mary (qv).

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, 14 March 2017.

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 488681
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 14 March 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/92083
War Memorials Register, accessed 14 March 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/32249

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.