War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, COURSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391908
- Date first listed:
- 27-Mar-2007
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, COURSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391908
- Date first listed:
- 27-Mar-2007
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, COURSE LANE
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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, COURSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newburgh
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 48139 10336
Details
NEWBURGH
663-1/0/10035 COURSE LANE
27-MAR-07 War Memorial
II
A war memorial in the form of an obelisk. Early C20. Designer or sculptor unknown.
MATERIALS: Sandstone with the lowest step being of concrete flagstones.
EXTERIOR: The war memorial consists of a three-stepped base, the bottom step being of concrete flagstones while the remainder of the memorial is of sandstone. The base is surmounted by a plinth and a stepped and tapered obelisk standing 2.5m high. The obelisk displays carved inscriptions and laurel wreaths in relief on all four faces and is topped with a pyramidal coping. The inscription on the south face reads `TO THE / GLORY OF GOD / AND IN MEMORY / OF THE / MEN OF NEWBURGH / WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES IN / THE GREAT WARS / 1914 - 1918 / 1939 - 1945'. The west face reads `SONS OF THIS PLACE / LET THIS OF YOU BE SAID / THAT YOU WHO LIVE ARE / WORTHY OF YOUR DEAD, / THESE GAVE THEIR LIVES / THAT YOU WHO LIVE MAY / REAP A RICHER HARVEST / ERE YOU FALL ASLEEP'. The north face reads ` THEIR NAME / LIVETH / FOR / EVERMORE'. The east face of the obelisk is inscribed `1914 - 1918' below which are the names of 10 of the fallen of the First World War. The plinth beneath is inscribed `1939 - 1945' below which are the names of 4 of the fallen of the Second World War.
SOURCES: United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials Ref. No. 3415.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: A restrained and carefully well executed First World War memorial in the form of an obelisk with Second World War additions, of special interest for the quality of its design as well as for its historic importance as a memorial to the dead of two World Wars.
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 2 February 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 502245
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 2 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/3415
War Memorials Online, accessed 2 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/119228
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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