The Cenotaph is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 2003. A Interwar War memorial.
The Cenotaph
- WRENN ID
- long-grate-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 2003
- Type
- War memorial
- Period
- Interwar
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
MORPETH
1632/0/10010 CASTLE BANK 15-APR-03 Carlisle Park (West side) The Cenotaph
II
War memorial. 1921-22, modified with additional plaques 1946-47. Designed by C Franklin Murphy and unveiled by Lord Joicey on October 1st 1922. Moulded ashlar with bronze decoration. The tall stone memorial stands on low paved plinth with ashlar retaining wall. Memorial is square in plan with low square projections at each corner. Stepped and moulded plinth has small bronze plaques attached recording the names of those local men who died in the Second World War. Tall memorial has two sunken panels to each face, the lower one on each side contains a large bronze plaque inscribed with the names of those local men who died in the First World War. The upper panels on each face contain a stone cross in relief decorated with a bronze laurel wreath. The whole is memorial topped with a bold moulded cornice with prominent dentils.
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, 8 February 2017.
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