War Memorial Including Posts and Chains
WAR MEMORIAL INCLUDING POSTS AND CHAINS, ROCK PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385314
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial Including Posts and Chains
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL INCLUDING POSTS AND CHAINS, ROCK PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1385314
- Date first listed:
- 31-Aug-1988
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial Including Posts and Chains
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL INCLUDING POSTS AND CHAINS, ROCK PARK
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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 INCLUDING POSTS AND CHAINS, ROCK PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Barnstaple
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 56138 32665
Details
BARNSTAPLE
SS5632 ROCK PARK
684-1/5/220 (North side)
31/08/88 War Memorial, including posts and
chains
GV II
Memorial to the fallen of 1914-18 war. 1922. Granite. A square
pedestal with moulded cap and base, standing on 3 steps. Above
it is a tall cross with moulded base, the head and arms with
moulded caps. Against the N side of the base of the cross lies
a bronze wreath. On each of the N and S faces of the pedestal
an inset bronze plaque with names of the men from Barnstaple
who fell in the Great War 1914-18. Inset on the other 2 sides
are similar plaques to those men of the borough who gave their
lives 1939-45. Enclosing the memorial are 12 short, tapered
granite posts with low pyramidal tops, these carrying heavy
spiked chains. 2 chains are missing on the N side.
(Lamplugh L: Barnstaple, Town on the Taw: Chichester: 1983-:
144).
Listing NGR: SS5613832665
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 December 2016.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485776
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lamplugh, L, Barnstaple, (1983), 144
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 08/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/796
War Memorials Online, accessed 08/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/121705
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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