The Cenotaph
THE CENOTAPH, CASTLE BANK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096118
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-2003
- List Entry Name:
- The Cenotaph
- Statutory Address:
- THE CENOTAPH, CASTLE BANK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096118
- Date first listed:
- 15-Apr-2003
- List Entry Name:
- The Cenotaph
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE CENOTAPH, CASTLE BANK
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:
- THE CENOTAPH, CASTLE BANK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Morpeth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 20141 85505
Details
MORPETH
1632/0/10010 CASTLE BANK
15-APR-03 Carlisle Park
(West side)
The Cenotaph
II
War memorial. 1921-22, modified with additional plaques 1946-47. Designed by C Franklin Murphy and unveiled by Lord Joicey on October 1st 1922. Moulded ashlar with bronze decoration.
The tall stone memorial stands on low paved plinth with ashlar retaining wall. Memorial is square in plan with low square projections at each corner. Stepped and moulded plinth has small bronze plaques attached recording the names of those local men who died in the Second World War. Tall memorial has two sunken panels to each face, the lower one on each side contains a large bronze plaque inscribed with the names of those local men who died in the First World War. The upper panels on each face contain a stone cross in relief decorated with a bronze laurel wreath. The whole is memorial topped with a bold moulded cornice with prominent dentils.
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, 8 February 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490084
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 8 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/34089
War Memorials Online, accessed 8 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/240039
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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