War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, TOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391713
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-2006
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, TOWER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391713
- Date first listed:
- 28-Apr-2006
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, TOWER STREET
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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, TOWER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Flamborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 22668 70323
Details
FLAMBOROUGH
330/0/10006 TOWER STREET
28-APR-06 WAR MEMORIAL
II
War Memorial, 1918 and 1945, plain stone cross on a double plinth, set in memorial garden which forms part of a scheduled ancient monument (SM 26506). Lowest step of plinth bears the inscription:
1914 - 1918
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
The middle step is inscribed with the names of 12 servicemen, with 15 more on the sides.
The upper step has a projecting stone inscribed: 1939-1945, and on the face of the plinth the names of 3(?) servicemen, with a total of 16 names from the 2nd World War.
On the shaft of the cross at the base is the inscription:
TO THE
GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY
OF THE SONS OF
FLAMBOROUGH
WHO DIED IN
THE GREAT WARS
The S of WARS was added after the 2nd World War.
The memorial was originally unveiled in October 1921.
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, 1 February 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 495302
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 1 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/35856
War Memorials Online, accessed 1 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/88568
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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