The Links, war memorial

HER Number

7380

District

N Tyneside

Site Name

The Links, war memorial

Place

Whitley Bay

Map Sheet

NZ37SE

Class

Commemorative

Site Type: Broad

Commemorative Monument

Site Type: Specific

War Memorial

General Period

20TH CENTURY

Specific Period

Early 20th Century 1901 to 1932

Form of Evidence

Structure

Description

War memorial. Circa 1919. Granite memorial with bronze decoration and plaques; granite piers. Tall tapered square column. Bronze wreath decoration beneath Scotia-moulded and banded coping. Three bronze plaques on projecting panels bear names of dead of both World Wars and commemorate building of memorial paid for by £7000 public subscription and £1000 from local authority funds. Dwarf walls and semi-circular steps on north and south. Low square piers flank steps. Twenty tapered square piers in outer circle formerly held chain. LISTED GRADE 2

Easting

435400

Northing

572800

Grid Reference

NZ435400572800

Sources

Department of National Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 5/179; North East War Memorials Project (www.newmp.org.uk) W84.01