Spennymoor U.D. War Memorial With Dwarf Walls, Railings And Gate Around

NZ 23 SE SPENNYMOOR HIGH STREET (East end) Spennymoor

6/60 Spennymoor U.D. War Memorial with dwarf walls, railings and gate around II

War memorial. 1923 by E.C. Kenmir for Spennymoor Urban District. Site the gift of the Weardale Iron and Coal Company. Sandstone ashlar; wrought iron railings and gate. Baroque style. 4 Ionic piers on large square base support entablature, on which rests panelled square base of smaller piers supporting entablature with dome above; prominent cornices to entablatures and to upper base. Square-section blocks on each base, the lower with low-relief sword and 'PRO DEO ET PRO PATRIA' on west, and names of dead, without ranks, on other 3 sides; added panels sloping from base to these, at north and south, bear names of dead in second World War. Long inscription below cross refers to the men falling 'while defending our liberty' and ends 'this people ... whose hearths they saved from shame for many and many an age proclaim ETERNAL HONOUR TO THEIR NAMES - THE GLORIOUS DEAD'.

Dwarf walls forming square enclosure have chamfered coping; railings of square- section iron have top and bottom rails; principals are set into walls; heads are graduated downwards between principals; narrow gate in similar style on west side.

Sources: information Mr. F.A. Kenmir ; and H.C. Surtees, The History of the Parishes of Tudhoe and Sunnybrow, (Mainsforth), 1925.

Listing NGR: NZ2584933908

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.