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Latitude: 54.5648 / 54°33'53"N
Longitude: -1.2405 / 1°14'25"W
OS Eastings: 449208
OS Northings: 519106
OS Grid: NZ492191
Mapcode National: GBR MHSN.7F
Mapcode Global: WHD6Z.XJGD
Plus Code: 9C6WHQ75+WR
Entry Name: Cenotaph, with Memorial Gates, Gatepiers and Screen Walls
Listing Date: 28 July 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1137094
English Heritage Legacy ID: 59769
ID on this website: 101137094
Location: Grove Hill, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, TS5
County: Middlesbrough
Electoral Ward/Division: Park
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Middlesbrough
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Linthorpe St Barnabas
Church of England Diocese: York
Tagged with: War memorial
NZ 41 NE (4919)
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MIDDLESBROUGH
PARK ROAD.
Cenotaph, with memorial gates, gatepiers and screen walls.
G.V.
II
Cenotaph, with gates gatepiers and screen walls, at entrance to Albert Park,
1922 by Brierley and Rutherford (York), and Messrs Coxhead (Middlesbrough),
masons. Tablets by Birmingham Guild Ltd. Gates renewed 1981. Polished
grey Aberdeen granite ashlar cenotaph, iron gates, Portland stone ashlar
gatepiers and walls, and bronze tablets. Cenotaph c.17m west of wide
gateway with flanking pedestrian gateways, screen walls and short projecting
end returns and terminal piers. Cenotaph: rectangular-plan pedestal and
truncated shaft, supporting deep stepped and moulded base of chest tomb,
with gadrooned band and panelled tablets on sides and ends. North and south
faces of shaft inscribed: "THE GLORIOUS DEAD 1914-1919, 1939-1945". On ends
of shaft and pedestal pilaster strips flanked at heads by bronze husk drops
and topped by bronze wreaths. Pedestal on 2 broad steps, shaped at ends,
and with glinters at angles. 2-leaf central gates and one-leaf pedestrian
gates. Original side panels with elaborate scrolls and strapwork and
similar crestings. Fielded-panelled gatepiers, with moulded plinths, deep
cornices and ornamented urn finials. Screen walls have banded rusticated
pilaster strips between groups of tablets; stepped plinth, cornice and
similar piers at ends. Tablets, in moulded surrounds, have raised lettering
recording names of fallen in both World Wars; 12 tablets on each wall.
Faceted ball finials on end piers. East faces of walls have plain raised
panels.
Listing NGR: NZ4920819106
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, 7 February 2017.
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