War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140442
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, MARKET PLACE
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- Date:
- 1999-08-15
- Reference:
- IOE01/00746/01
- Rights:
- © Mr Peter Holt. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1140442
- Date first listed:
- 06-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, MARKET PLACE
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:
- WAR MEMORIAL, MARKET PLACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Erewash (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 46504 41670
Details
PARISH OF ILKESTON MARKET PLACE
SK 4641 NW
7/47 War Memorial
GV II
War memorial. c1920. Ashlar. Cenotaph raised on three stone
steps, square in plan, with square piers at the angles.
Surrounded by twelve tapering stone piers with wrought iron
railings between. The cenotaph has a chamfered plinth,
rectangular base with chamfered top and a rectangular pier above
with nicked corners and a step at the top. Base inscribed in
relief on north and south faces OUR/GLORIOUS/DEAD and with inset
metal panels on the east and west sides inscribed with the names
of the men of Ilkeston killed in the two World Wars. The pier
has a wreath to the west and a chamfered cross to the east.
Listing NGR: SK4650441670
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, 25 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352250
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 25 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/14236
War Memorials Online, accessed 25 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/109593
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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