Weymouth Cenotaph
WEYMOUTH CENOTAPH, THE ESPLANADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393111
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Weymouth Cenotaph
- Statutory Address:
- WEYMOUTH CENOTAPH, THE ESPLANADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1393111
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-2009
- List Entry Name:
- Weymouth Cenotaph
- Statutory Address 1:
- WEYMOUTH CENOTAPH, THE ESPLANADE
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:
- WEYMOUTH CENOTAPH, THE ESPLANADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Weymouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 68166 79799
Reasons for Designation
The Weymouth Cenotaph has been designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * An eloquent witness to the impact of tragic world events on this community * A design of distinct architectural quality and craftsmanship * A dignified piece of symbolism, imaginatively sited on the sea front * It has group value with a number of listed buildings, including the D-Day Port Memorial
Details
WEYMOUTH
873-1/0/10026 THE ESPLANADE
30-JAN-09 (Southeast side)
WEYMOUTH CENOTAPH
GV II
First World War memorial.1921, adapted in 1949 to include Second World War. Cenotaph-type design of Portland stone with bronze plaques.
A tall, slender pier, stepped at the top, and raised on shallow steps and a rectangular plinth. The upper parts of the pier have wreaths to north west and south east faces, surrounding a 1914 / 1919 inscription and decorative relief of Christ being born aloft by angels respectively. Below, on all four sides of the pier are bronze panels bearing the names of the dead in World War One and, on the south east face the panel also defines the purpose of the memorial. The four sides of the plinth carry a stone panel to the north west face inscribed: `IN REMEMBRANCE OF / THE CITIZENS / OF THIS BOROUGH / WHO MADE THE / SUPREME SACRIFICE / DURING THE / SECOND WORLD WAR / 1939-1945', and three bronze plaques commemorating those who died in the Second World War.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: The memorial is surrounded by low iron railings.
HISTORY: It was erected to commemorate those who died during the Great War and was unveiled on 6th November 1921. On 8th May 1949, further plaques were unveiled on the memorial to commemorate the dead of World War Two.
SOURCES: http://www.ukniwm.org.uk
REASON FOR DESIGNATION: The Weymouth Cenotaph is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* An eloquent witness to the impact of tragic world events on this community
* A design of distinct architectural quality and craftsmanship
* A dignified piece of symbolism, imaginatively sited on the sea front
* It has group value with a number of listed buildings, including the D-Day Port Memorial to the south
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, 7 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 505695
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 07/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/970
War Memorials Online, accessed 07/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/121539
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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