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Carr-Ellison Park First World War Memorial

Carr-Ellison Park, Canning Street, Hebburn, South Tyneside, NE31 2UJ

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First World War memorial, 1920. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1438373
Date first listed:: 06-Oct-2016
List Entry Name:: Carr-Ellison Park First World War Memorial
Statutory Address:: Carr-Ellison Park, Canning Street, Hebburn, South Tyneside, NE31 2UJ

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1438373
Date first listed:: 06-Oct-2016
List Entry Name:: Carr-Ellison Park First World War Memorial
Statutory Address 1:: Carr-Ellison Park, Canning Street, Hebburn, South Tyneside, NE31 2UJ

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Carr-Ellison Park, Canning Street, Hebburn, South Tyneside, NE31 2UJ

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: South Tyneside (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: NZ3118064224

Summary

First World War memorial, 1920.

Reasons for Designation

Carr-Ellison Park First World War Memorial, which stands in Carr-Ellison Park, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

* Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on the local community, and the sacrifice it made in the First World War; * Architectural interest: an understated yet elegant memorial in the Classical style; * Group value: with Hebburn Hall and the Church of St John, both Grade II-listed.

History

Colonel Carr-Ellison’s grandfather and father had suggested that the densely populated industrial town of Hebburn on the south bank of the River Tyne would benefit from a public open space: Carr-Ellison’s gift of a public park was intended both to fulfil their wishes and to mark the safe return of his son from the First World War. The Ellison family had acquired the Manor of Hebburn in 1648. From 1897 local residents had permission to use the pleasure gardens and it was the 25 acres surrounding Hebburn Hall that Carr-Ellison donated to the town in 1920.

The grounds already formed the setting for a Boer War memorial of 1903 (unlisted). To mark the gift of the park, a memorial plaque was erected at the entrance. The ceremony at which Carr-Ellison handed over the title deeds to the Town Council was held on 7 October 1920. In 1922 a tall Celtic cross commemorating some 300 local men who had died in the First World War was unveiled in the western part of the park: this cross is no longer extant.

Details

The memorial stands inside the Canning Street entrance to Carr-Ellison Park, at the first junction of drives leading around the park. It is circa 80m to the north-east of Hebburn Hall and the Church of St John (both Grade II-listed). The memorial comprises a stone plinth, rectangular on plan, raised on a three-stage base. Granite pillars on sandstone bases and with foliated capitals flank the plinth. The whole is topped with a cornice that once supported a statue.

Granite plaques to the front and rear of the plinth record the gift of the park as a war memorial. The principal dedicatory inscription to the front reads THE GREAT WAR/ THIS PARK WAS PRESENTED TO THE/ INHABITANTS OF HEBBURN BY/ COLONEL RALPH HENRY CARR-ELLISON C.M.G./ IN MEMORY OF THOSE HEBBURN MEN WHO/ LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE/ OF THEIR COUNTRY, AND AS A TOKEN OF/ GRATITUDE FOR THE SAFE RETURN OF HIS ONLY SON/ JOHN CAMPBELL CARR-ELLISON, LIEUT./ 1ST ROYAL DRAGOONS.

The inscription on the plaque to the rear reads THIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY THE/ HEBBURN URBAN DISTRICT COUNCIL/ ON BEHALF OF THE INHABITANTS/ AS A TOKEN OF THEIR DEEP APPRECIATION/ OF/ COLONEL CARR-ELLISON’S/ MUNIFICENT GIFT./ JOHN BLACK/ CHAIRMAN/ JULY 1920.

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, 30 January 2018.

Sources

Websites
North East War Memorials Project, Carr Ellison Park 1914 - 18, accessed 03/02/2016 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7739
North East War Memorials Project, Cross 1914 - 18 Park, accessed 05/09/2016 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7732
Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, accessed 03/08/2016 from http://www.pmsa.org.uk/pmsa-database/10062/
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 January 2018 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/194575
War Memorials Register, accessed 7 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/17806

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

The listed building(s) is/are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act.