War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, THE HEADROW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255832
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, THE HEADROW
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- Reference:
- IOE01/10403/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1255832
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1976
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, THE HEADROW
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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, THE HEADROW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE2989033814
Details
LEEDS
SE2933NE THE HEADROW
714-1/75/396 (North side)
05/08/76 War Memorial
GV II
War memorial. 1922, restored 1992. Henry C Fahr sculptor, JE
Proctor, designer. First and Second World Wars memorial.
Marble octagonal steps, plinth and squat obelisk with carvings
of owls, wreaths and flags, bronze figures of Peace on north
side and War, (St George and the Dragon) on south. Bronze
angel replaced 1992 by Ian Judd and Andy Elton. Moved to this
site from City Square in 1937, to stand at the east end of JE
Proctor's Garden of Rest. It was originally surmounted by a
bronze figure of Victory, removed 1967.
(Heap, A: The Headrow, a pictorial record: Leeds: 1990-: 17).
Listing NGR: SE2989033814
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, 31 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465590
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Heap, A, The Headrow a Pictorial history, (1990), 17
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 31 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2111
War Memorials Online, accessed 31 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/120455
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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