Easington Colliery War Memorial
Easington Colliery Cemetery, Crawlaw Road, Easington Colliery, SR8 3NB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1435116
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Easington Colliery War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- Easington Colliery Cemetery, Crawlaw Road, Easington Colliery, SR8 3NB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1435116
- Date first listed:
- 24-May-2016
- List Entry Name:
- Easington Colliery War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- Easington Colliery Cemetery, Crawlaw Road, Easington Colliery, SR8 3NB
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:
- Easington Colliery Cemetery, Crawlaw Road, Easington Colliery, SR8 3NB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Easington Colliery
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ4317844114
Summary
First World War memorial, 1926, with additions for later conflicts.
Reasons for Designation
Easington Colliery War Memorial, which stands in Easington Colliery Cemetery, 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: a sympathetic adaptation of Sir Reginald Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice.
History
Easington Colliery War Memorial was unveiled on 30 January 1926 by Colonel Pickersgill, commemorating 198 local men who died during the First World War. It cost £440 and was made by GW Pratt of Easington. Following the Second World War, new inscriptions commemorating the 63 men who died in that conflict were unveiled in October 1949 by Lt-Col R Telford, Chairman of the Durham County British Legion Branch. A further inscription was added to commemorate the death of a soldier in Bosnia in 1995.
Details
The memorial stands at the centre of Easington Colliery Cemetery, to the south of the Easington Colliery Disaster Memorial. It comprises a version of Sir Reginald Blomfield’s Cross of Sacrifice, in pale grey granite. The cross, bearing a reversed sword in bronze, rises from an octagonal pedestal. That stands on a three-stepped, octagonal, granite base, which is raised on a further two steps of a different material.
A wreath with ribbons carved in low relief on the front face of the pedestal encloses the dedication OUR/ GLORIOUS/ DEAD/ 1914-1918, with below 1939 - 1945 in attached metal figures. The names of the commemorated First World War service personnel are listed on the remaining faces of the pedestal. The later names are listed on the faces of the two uppermost granite steps of the base.
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 February 2017.
Sources
Websites
North East War Memorials Project, accessed 14/04/2016 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7148
War Memorials Register, accessed 7 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/10270
War Memorials Online, accessed 7 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/232016
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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