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Latitude: 54.9537 / 54°57'13"N
Longitude: -1.6859 / 1°41'9"W
OS Eastings: 420212
OS Northings: 562158
OS Grid: NZ202621
Mapcode National: GBR JCN5.S1
Mapcode Global: WHC3Q.2RG9
Plus Code: 9C6WX837+FJ
Entry Name: War Memorial
Listing Date: 18 November 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1366091
English Heritage Legacy ID: 303904
ID on this website: 101366091
Location: Swalwell, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, NE16
County: Gateshead
Electoral Ward/Division: Whickham North
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Whickham
Traditional County: Durham
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Tyne and Wear
Church of England Parish: Blaydon and Swalwell
Church of England Diocese: Durham
Tagged with: War memorial
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WHICKHAM
Swalwell
HEXHAM ROAD (south side)
War Memorial
II
War Memorial. 1918 by W.H. Wood. Ashlar with inscribed Lakeland slate panels. Octagonal; Perpendicular style. Wide step to double-chamfered pedestal inscribed UNVEILED BY THE RT. HON. EARL OF DURHAM K.C. LORD LIEUTENANT EASTER MONDAY 1918, (sic) and bearing nine panels of names of dead of two World Wars. Low-relief lettering in band above panels; sloped coping supports moulded and coped buttresses defining ogee-headed panels containing blank shields under string. Foliage decoration to tall tapered shaft with cross finial.
Listing NGR: NZ2021262158
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online, the War Memorials Register and North East War Memorials Project. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 17 September 2018.
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