Braystones Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 January 1991. Tower.
Braystones Tower
- WRENN ID
- lunar-solder-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1991
- Type
- Tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The following building shall be added:-
NY 00 NW LOWSIDE QUARTER BRAYSTONES TOWER
11/1 II
Memorial tower. Erected 1897 to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee; became a First World War memorial in addtion, 1920. Snecked sandstone rubble with roughly dressed quoins and tooled dressings. Tower (formerly floored, now gutted) 3 stages with battlemented parapet (slightly corbelled) and corner turret. Doorway and windows (one to each floor to each elevation) under dropped labels. Original commemorative tablet records the names of local worthies present at its unveiling (June 1897); another tablet records the names of those men of Braystone who served in the Great War. Braystone Tower is a prominent landmark from both the countryside around and the sea.
Listing NGR: NY0084205988
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, 2 February 2017.
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