War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392459
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-2008
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1392459
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-2008
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Warrington (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rixton-with-Glazebrook
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 69701 91153
Reasons for Designation
An elegant war memorial with inscribed base and square column surmounted by a cross commemorating local soldiers who lost their lives during the First and Second World Wars.
Details
RIXTON WITH GLAZEBROOK
23/0/10003 HOLLINS GREEN
06-MAR-08 War Memorial
II
War memorial, c.1920, sandstone. WWII inscription added later. Square column on square base and plinth surmounted by cross.
Flat square plinth. Square column base with inverted cavetto moulding at feet. Band around top of base reads 'Remember those men/of Hollinfare who/gave their lives in/the Great War 1914-1919'. East elevation displays names of 12 men. West elevation displays '1939.1945' and names of 3 men. Memorial sits upon traffic island enclosed by black and gold iron bollards.
HISTORY: Memorial commemorates the men of Hollinfare who who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: An elegant war memorial with inscribed base and square column surmounted by a cross commemorating local soldiers who fell during the First and Second World Wars.
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, 26 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 493533
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 26 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42864
War Memorials Online, accessed 26 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/155639
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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