War Memorial Opposite St Helen's Church

WAR MEMORIAL OPPOSITE ST HELEN'S CHURCH, BRIDGES LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075854
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
War Memorial Opposite St Helen's Church
Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL OPPOSITE ST HELEN'S CHURCH, BRIDGES LANE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1075854
Date first listed:
17-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:
War Memorial Opposite St Helen's Church
Statutory Address 1:
WAR MEMORIAL OPPOSITE ST HELEN'S CHURCH, BRIDGES LANE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL OPPOSITE ST HELEN'S CHURCH, BRIDGES LANE

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

District:
Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Sefton
National Grid Reference:
SD 35645 01243

Details

SEFTON BRIDGES LANE
SD 30 SE
(south side)
7/133 War memorial
opposite
St. Helen's
Church (q.v.)
G.V. II
War Memorial. c.1920, but incorporating stone, possibly
medieval cross base. Stone. 4 octagonal steps, square
cross base and chamfered shaft cross with canopied crucifix.
Inscriptions to step risers. Cross base is of different
stone from rest of memorial and is more weathered, provenance
unknown, but many crosses known to have been in area.


Listing NGR: SD3564501243

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, 27 February 2018.

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Legacy System number:
216530
Legacy System:
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Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/156459
War Memorials Register, accessed 27 February 2018 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/15747

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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