Description

NZ 26 SW
5/139

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.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26647723

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)