GOSFORTH COLUMN

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Reference WMO/89984

Address:

Central Park

Gosforth

England

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Status: On subsequent site(s)
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Stone Sandstone
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Steps up to a plinth which is set a small column with a palladian type finial. The war memorial was moved from the north edge of the park to its current central location, on the site of the former bandstand. It is an octagonal column aand was unveiled on 28 January 1925 by the Duke of Northumberland. In April 2016 the original brick plinth was resurfaced with red sandstone
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THIS COLUMN AND ADJACENT BUILDING WERE ERECTED BY PUBLIC/ SUBSCRIPTION TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF GOSFORTH WHO FELL/ IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 - THEIR NAMES ARE INSCRIBED/ ON A TABLET IN THE VESTIBULE OF THE BUILDING THE HALL TO THE WEST OF THIS STONE, ERECTED WITH PUBLIC/ SUBSCRIPTION, WAS DEDICATED ON REMEMBRANCE DAY THE 6TH/ NOVEMBER 1949, AS A MEMORIAL TO THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ WHILST SERVING IN H.M. FORCES AND THE MERCHANT NAVY IN THE/ 1939 - 1945 WAR

Grade II (England)

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