War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1996. War memorial.
War Memorial
- WRENN ID
- first-transept-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1996
- Type
- War memorial
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LEEK
SJ9856SE ASHBOURNE ROAD 611-1/7/16 (North side) War Memorial
II
Clock tower, built as war memorial. Portland stone, ashlar- channelled to lower stage. 1924-5, restored 1994. By Percy Worthington. Door to tower, and inscribed bronze panels in advanced moulded architraves in each face. Upper stage has glazed doors with balconettes, and paired round-arched windows, clock in laurel wreath. Names of WWI battles inscribed in frieze below pyramidal stone roof. The tower is raised up steps with flanking wall pierced by cast-iron or bronze gates, and with cast-iron or bronze lamp standards on angles. Memorial panels for WWII on flanking wall. HISTORICAL NOTE: the war memorial was the gift to the town of Sir Arthur Nicholson (a local silk manufacturer), and his wife, in memory of their son, Lieutenant Basil Lee Nicholson and other local men killed in WWI.
Listing NGR: SJ9870956491
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, 19 January 2017.
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