War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, CROSBY ROAD NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257659
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, CROSBY ROAD NORTH
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257659
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1996
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, CROSBY ROAD NORTH
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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, CROSBY ROAD NORTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3229497867
Details
CROSBY
SJ3297NW CROSBY ROAD NORTH
778-1/9/33 (West side)
War Memorial
GV II
War memorial, commemorates First World War casualties. Early
1920s, by Doyle Jones, sculptor. Sandstone ashlar with bronze
statue. Square pier approx. 4 metres high, with a moulded
plinth, side-pilasters and a moulded cornice with swept
pedestal bearing a globe on which stands a bronze statue of an
angel displaying a wreath. Lettering on all sides of the pier,
the north-east front with the dedication "OUR / GLORIOUS DEAD
/ WHO FELL / IN THE GREAT WAR / 1914 - 1919 / THEIR NAME
LIVETH / FOR EVERMORE", and the others with over 400 names (no
units or ranks). Name of sculptor on rear corner of base.
Forms a group with 3 lamp standards surrounding it (qv).
Listing NGR: SJ3229497867
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, 24 July 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 463598
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 27 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/157571
War Memorials Register, accessed 24 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2554
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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