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Memorial details
- Memorial type
- Pillar / Column
- District
- Sedgefield
- Town
- Spennymoor
- County
- Durham
- Country
- England
- Commemoration
- First World War (1914-1918), Second World War (1939-1945), Afghanistan (2001-2014)
- Maker
- MR E C KENMIR (Architect)
MESSRS LOWES AND SONS (Builder) - Ceremony
- Unveiled
Date: 15 October 1922
Attended by: J H B Forster, Managing Director of Weardale Steel, Coal & Coke Company - Dedicated
Date: 15 October 1922
Attended by: Canon Wykes, Vicar of St Andrew's Church - Show More (1)
- Unveiled
- Lost
- Not lost
- WM Reference
- 4
Current location
12
Town Square
Cheapside
Spennymoor
Sedgefield
Durham
DL16 6AG
England
OS Grid Ref: NZ 25849 33908
Denomination: Undefined
- Description
- TIERED, ORNATE COLUMN of Greenlaw Stone WITH LAUREL WREATHS AND CROSS DEPICTED ON IT.
- Inscription
- 1914-1919/ TO THOSE MEN OF SPENNYMOOR/ URBAN DISTRICT WHO FELL/ WHILE DEFENDING/ OUR LIBERTY/ LET THEIR NAMES BE CHERISHED/ WITH GRATITUDE AND PRIDE AND THE/ REMEMBRANCE OF THEIR STEADFAST/ ENDURANCE AND GALLANT SACRIFICE/ BE ENSHRINED
- Inscription legible?
- yes
- Names on memorial
- Abley, Ernest W
Abley, I
Abley, S
Adams, F W
Alderson, B
Alderson, G
Alderson, M
Anderson, E W
Anderson, F
Anderson, George
See details for all 484 names - Commemorations
- First World War (1914-1918)
Total names on memorial: 360
Served and returned: 0
Died: 360
Exact count: no
Information shown: surname,decorations
Order of information: Undefined - Second World War (1939-1945)
Total names on memorial: 123
Served and returned: 0
Died: 123
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames
Order of information: surname - Afghanistan (2001-2014)
Total names on memorial: 1
Served and returned: 0
Died: 1
Exact count: yes
Information shown: surname, forenames, year of death
Order of information: Undefined
- First World War (1914-1918)
- Components
- Column
Measurements: depth 3m, height 5m, width 3m
Materials: Stone
- Column
- Listing information
- SPENNYMOOR U.D. WAR MEMORIAL WITH DWARF WALLS, RAILINGS AND GATE AROUND
- Grade II
- This memorial is protected, and listed on the National Heritage List for England maintained by Historic England. View list entry
- More about listing and the protection of historic places can be found on the Historic England website
- Condition
- Spennymoor
- WMO ID: 231171
- Condition: Good [last updated on 26-07-2017]
- Help update these details if the condition is wrong
- History
- CIRCA 1990: REFURBISHED
- Costs
Site: NIL- Given by Weardale Steel, Coal & Coke Company
Memorial: £1,025- Trust fund/Scholarship
- No
Purpose: Unknown or N/A - Responsibility
- SPENNYMOOR TOWN COUNCIL
- Reference
- www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=8642
- Spennymoor Town Council Official Guide, c1995
- Northern Echo 16 October 1922
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