Eaglescliffe and Preston-on-Tees War Memorial
Tittybottle Park, Victoria Road, Eaglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees, TS16 0DF
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1435092
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Eaglescliffe and Preston-on-Tees War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Tittybottle Park, Victoria Road, Eaglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees, TS16 0DF
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1435092
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Eaglescliffe and Preston-on-Tees War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Tittybottle Park, Victoria Road, Eaglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees, TS16 0DF
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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:
- Tittybottle Park, Victoria Road, Eaglescliffe, Stockton-on-Tees, TS16 0DF
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Stockton-on-Tees (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Egglescliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ4222114894
Summary
First World War memorial, 1920, with additions for later conflicts.
Reasons for Designation
Eaglescliffe and Preston-on-Tees War Memorial, which stands in Tittybottle Park, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this local community, and the sacrifice it has made in the conflicts of the C20;
* Architectural interest: an elegant memorial obelisk.
History
Eaglescliffe and Preston-on-Tees War Memorial was unveiled on 25 September 1920 by Colonel G O Spence, 5th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry. It was dedicated by Reverend B Harvey in commemoration of 38 local servicemen who died during the First World War. The memorial cost £1,027, raised by public subscription. Following the Second World War the names of 20 men and one woman were added. One serviceman who died in 1950 during the Malayan Emergency is also commemorated.
Details
The memorial stands at the centre of Tittybottle Park. Built in grey Aberdeen granite, c 5m tall overall, it comprises a small blind wheel-head cross on top of a tapering shaft. The shaft rises from the cornice of the slightly tapering pedestal. The moulded pedestal base stands on two steps. The highly polished granite cross shaft is delicately ornamented with engraved patterns outlining the edges, acanthus leaves around the base of the shaft, and with patterning around the shaft foot.
The principal dedicatory inscription on the front face of the pedestal reads ERECTED/ AT THE END OF THE/ GREAT EUROPEAN WAR/ (1914 – 1919)/ IN MEMORY OF THE MEN/ FROM/ EAGLESCLIFFE AND PRESTON/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN A/ JUST CAUSE./ GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN/ THAN THIS. The commemorated First World War names are listed on the two side faces of the pedestal. The rear face is inscribed TO LIVE IN HEARTS WE LEAVE/ BEHIND IS NOT TO DIE.
The front face of the pedestal’s base is inscribed ROLL OF HONOUR/ 2ND WORLD WAR/ (1939 – 1945) with names to either side. The soldier who died in 1950 is commemorated below the Second World War list on the left hand side.
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, 7 February 2017.
Sources
Websites
North East War Memorials Project, accessed 13/04/2016 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7190
War Memorials Register, accessed 13/04/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/9791
War Memorials Online, accessed 7 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/113593
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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