Walker War Memorial

Scrogg Road, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 3BL

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First World War memorial with later additions for the Second World War. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1440916
Date first listed:: 20-Jan-2017
List Entry Name:: Walker War Memorial
Statutory Address:: Scrogg Road, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 3BL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1440916
Date first listed:: 20-Jan-2017
List Entry Name:: Walker War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: Scrogg Road, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 3BL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Scrogg Road, Walker, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 3BL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Newcastle upon Tyne (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ2879264139

Summary

First World War memorial with later additions for the Second World War.

Reasons for Designation

Walker War Memorial, which stands on Scrogg Road, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the conflicts of the C20; * Architectural interest: a tall and imposing stone memorial, carefully positioned in alignment with the surrounding residential streets.

History

The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. This was the result of both the huge impact on communities of the loss of three quarters of a million British lives, and also the official policy of not repatriating the dead, which meant that the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss.

One such memorial was raised at Walker as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War. It was commissioned by the then Town Council and paid for by public subscription. The figure of Victory that surmounts the pylon once held a wreath which was not replaced having been broken, whilst the inscription was once completed with inset metal lettering, now lost. Following the Second World War the inscription was altered to reflect the losses of that conflict.

Details

The tall stone memorial stands in an arc of ground to the W side of Scrogg Road, aligned with Melton Avenue and other radiating roads of the housing estate, and with the western entrance to Walker Park. It takes the form of a figure of Victory surmounting a tapering pylon, which stands on a broad plinth. The plinth stands on a low three-stepped base. The uppermost section of the pylon is ornamented with equal-armed crosses carved in low relief.

The inscription to the front face of the pylon reads ERECTED BY/ PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION IN/ HONOURED MEMORY OF/ THE GALLANT MEN OF/ WALKER WHO SACRIFICED/ THEIR LIVES IN THE/ GREAT WAR./ 1914-1918./ 1939-1945./ THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.

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, 23 February 2017.

Sources

Websites
North East War Memorials Project, accessed 28/10/2016 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=9253
War Memorials Online, accessed 23 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/183709
War Memorials Register, accessed 23 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/34586

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

The listed building is shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.