{"type":"FeatureCollection","features":[{"geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[-1.816447,54.976117],[-1.816434,54.976125],[-1.816439,54.976132],[-1.816464,54.976129],[-1.816461,54.976119],[-1.816447,54.976117]]]]},"type":"Feature","properties":{"entry-date":"2017-02-22","start-date":"2017-02-15","end-date":"","entity":42153067,"name":"Wylam War Memorial","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"1442824","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":"220","quality":"authoritative","notes":"Summary of Building First World War memorial by W Dixon and Sons of Newcastle, unveiled 1923, with later additions for the Second World War. Reasons for Designation Wylam War Memorial, which stands on War Memorial Green, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this local community, and the sacrifice it has made in the conflicts of the C20; * Architectural interest: a tall memorial cross built in a complimentary suite of regional stone types. History The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. This was the result of both the huge impact on communities of the loss of three quarters of a million British lives, and also the official policy of not repatriating the dead: therefore the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss. One such memorial was raised at Wylam as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War. The memorial was unveiled on 10 March 1923 by CJW Blackett, Lord of the Manor, and dedicated by the Vicar, Reverend HH Barff, and the Methodist Minister, Reverend George Mills. Colonel EPC Riddell CMG DSO gave the address. The memorial commemorates 42 local servicemen who died in the First World War. Designed by W Dixon and Sons of Newcastle, it cost c#700, raised by public subscription. The site for the memorial was donated by the landowner, CJW Blackett. Following the Second World War the names of 11 men who died in that conflict were added. Messrs William Dixon and Sons, surveyors and architects of Newcastle, were also responsible for the Grade II-listed Broomhaugh and Riding Mill war memorial cross. Details The memorial stands on War Memorial Green, to the north end of Wylam Bridge. The tall cross in Windy Nook stone comprises an ornamented Latin cross that rises from a moulded collar on a tapering shaft. The moulded shaft foot stands on a plinth, octagonal on plan, that stands on Heworth stone steps. The stepped base is surrounded by York stone flagstones. Four of the plinth?s faces bear bronze plaques. The principal dedicatory inscription on the plaque to the front face reads ERECTED BY/ THE PEOPLE OF/ WYLAM/ IN GRATEFUL MEMORY/ OF THOSE WHO/ GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 ? 1918/ ?THEY WERE A WALL UNTO US/ BOTH BY NIGHT AND DAY.?/ I.SAM.XXV.16. This plaque is ornamented with a small wreath and a border of interlace pattern. To either side of that plaque on the adjacent plinth faces are similar plaques listing the commemorated First World War names. The fourth plaque reads 1939 ? 1945/ (11 NAMES). 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, 21 February 2017. Selected Sources Websites North East War Memorials Project, accessed 19/12/2016 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=8556 War Memorials Online, accessed 21 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/204908 War Memorials Register, accessed 21 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/34285 National Grid Reference: NZ1184864628","listed-building":"1442824"}},{"geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[-1.896879,55.401285],[-1.896883,55.401292],[-1.896899,55.401289],[-1.896894,55.401282],[-1.896879,55.401285]]]]},"type":"Feature","properties":{"entry-date":"2017-02-22","start-date":"2017-02-20","end-date":"","entity":42153068,"name":"Whittingham War Memorial Cross","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"1442830","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":"220","quality":"authoritative","notes":"Summary of Building First and Second World War memorial, unveiled 1949. Reasons for Designation Whittingham War Memorial Cross, which stands outside St Bartholomew?s Church, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this local community, and the sacrifices it has made in the conflicts of the C20; * Architectural interest: a simple yet poignant memorial cross built in regional stone types; * Group value: with the Grade I-listed Church of St Bartholomew and numerous Grade II-listed churchyard monuments. History The aftermath of the First and Second World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across the country. This was the result of both the huge impact on communities of the loss of three quarters of a million British lives, and also the official policy of not repatriating the dead: therefore the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss. A number of war memorials were raised at Whittingham, including a stained glass window in the church, dedicated in 1920, and a community hall (not listed) opened in 1924: but in 1949 a stone cross was erected and unveiled outside the parish church to mark the community's losses in the two World Wars. The memorial cross, by Mr Austin Child, was unveiled by Lord Ravensworth on 13 November 1949. It cost #197, of which #125 was raised by public subscription. Details The memorial stands to the south of the Church of St Bartholomew (Grade I-listed), positioned as close as possible to the church?s First World War memorial window that had been unveiled in 1920 by the Bishop of Newcastle, commemorating the 33 local servicemen who had died in the conflict. The memorial cross, in Blaxter stone with York stone steps, takes the form of a simple Latin cross c2.5m tall. The cross, octagonal in section, rises from a pedestal, square on plan. The pedestal stands on a two-stepped base, that is raised on a low stone platform. To the front face of the pedestal the inscription reads: 1914 -/ -1918/ 1939 -/ -1945. Selected Sources Websites North East War Memorials Project, accessed 19/12/2016 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=9280 North East War Memorials Project, accessed 19/12/2016 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=9277 North East War Memorials Project, accessed 19/12/2016 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=9281 National Grid Reference: NU0662911931","listed-building":"1442830"}},{"geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[-1.600939,55.2554],[-1.600929,55.255405],[-1.600932,55.255412],[-1.600952,55.255411],[-1.600952,55.255403],[-1.600939,55.2554]]]]},"type":"Feature","properties":{"entry-date":"2017-02-23","start-date":"2017-02-20","end-date":"","entity":42153069,"name":"Widdrington War Memorial","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"1442834","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":"220","quality":"authoritative","notes":"Summary of Building First World War memorial, unveiled 1920. Reasons for Designation Widdrington War Memorial, which stands in the churchyard, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this local community, and the sacrifice it has made in the First World War; * Architectural interest: a simple yet poignant wheel-head cross in the Celtic style; * Group value: with the Grade I-listed Church of the Holy Trinity, churchyard monuments listed at Grade II, and the scheduled Widdrington Castle and 18th century Gothic castle and gardens south of Widdrington Farm. History The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. This was the result of both the huge impact on communities of the loss of three quarters of a million British lives, and also the official policy of not repatriating the dead: therefore the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss. One such memorial was raised at Widdrington as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War. The memorial cross was unveiled on 28 November 1920 by Colonel Taylor DSO of Dilston Hall, Corbridge, and dedicated by Bishop Ormsby. Details The c5m tall memorial stands in the churchyard, to the north side of the Church of the Holy Trinity (Grade I-listed). It takes the form of a rough-hewn granite cross with a wheel-head in the Celtic style. The cross shaft rises from a tapering plinth. The plinth stands on a stone base made to look like a stony outcrop. A small panel at the foot of the cross shaft is inscribed THEIR NAME/ LIVETH/ FOR/ EVERMORE. Below, to the front face of the plinth, the principal dedicatory inscription reads WIDDRINGTON MEMORIAL/ SACRED/ TO THE MEMORY OF/ THE MEN FROM THIS DISTRICT/ WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914 ? 1919. The commemorated names are listed to wither side of the plinth, in applied metal lettering. Selected Sources Websites North East War Memorials Project, accessed 19/12/2016 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=9290 National Grid Reference: NZ2546495763","listed-building":"1442834"}},{"geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[-2.345357,54.905817],[-2.345344,54.905902],[-2.34541,54.905884],[-2.34543,54.90587],[-2.345423,54.905839],[-2.345357,54.905817]]]]},"type":"Feature","properties":{"entry-date":"2017-02-15","start-date":"2017-02-14","end-date":"","entity":42153070,"name":"Whitfield War Memorial","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"1442956","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":"220","quality":"authoritative","notes":"Summary of Building First World War memorial by HL Hicks ARIBA, unveiled 1920, with later additions for the Second World War. Reasons for Designation Whitfield War Memorial, which stands in Holy Trinity churchyard, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Historic interest: as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this local community, and the sacrifice it has made in the conflicts of the C20; * Architectural interest: a bold memorial cross incorporating traditional symbols including a wreath and reversed sword; * Group value: with the Grade II*-listed Church of the Holy Trinity. History The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. This was the result of both the huge impact on communities of the loss of three quarters of a million British lives, and also the official policy of not repatriating the dead: therefore the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss. One such memorial was raised at Whitfield as a permanent testament to the sacrifice made by the members of the local community who lost their lives in the First World War. The memorial was unveiled in December 1920 by Lt-Gen Sir Percy Wilkinson, in commemoration of 12 local servicemen who died in the First World War. Designed by Mr HL Hicks ARIBA of Newcastle, it was paid for through public subscription. Following the Second World War a new dedication was added to the memorial to mark the safe return of all the village?s soldiers who fought in that conflict. HL Hicks ARIBA (c1881-1947) was articled to Messrs Hicks and Charlewood, his father?s firm, c1848. He started independent practice in 1908 in Newcastle upon Tyne. He was responsible for war memorials at St Andrews, Corbridge, and St John?s, Wansbeck. Details The memorial stands in an enclosure in the churchyard of the Church of the Holy Trinity (Grade II*-listed), overlooking the main road running through West Allendale. The enclosure is walled to the front with central gates, and a curved hedge to the rear. Just over 3m tall, the memorial takes the form of a wheel-head cross, octagonal in section, with a wreath carved in low relief on the cross head. A reversed sword is carved in low relief on the cross face. The large moulded cross shaft foot stands on an octagonal plinth, which stands on a stepped base. The principal dedicatory inscription on the front face of the cross shaft foot reads IN MEMORY OF THOSE/ FROM THIS PARISH/ WHO GAVE THEIR/ LIVES IN THE GREAT/ WAR 1914-1919. Commemorated names are recorded on three faces of the plinth, organised by regiment. The Second World War inscription runs around the plinth?s base, reading GIVING THANKS/ TO/ ALMIGHTY GOD/ FOR THE/ SAFE RETURN/ OF THOSE/ FROM THIS PARISH WHO/ SERVED /THEIR KING AND COUNTRY/ IN THE/ WAR 1939-1945. Selected Sources Books and journals Felstead, A, Directory of British Architects 1834 to 1914 Volume 1 A-K, (2001), 902 Websites North East War Memorials Project, accessed 22 December 2016 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=9275 National Grid Reference: NY7795256847","listed-building":"1442956"}},{"geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[-2.002382,55.772308],[-2.002392,55.772305],[-2.002356,55.772232],[-2.002416,55.772221],[-2.002407,55.772195],[-2.002442,55.772188],[-2.002434,55.772176],[-2.002444,55.772163],[-2.002439,55.772153],[-2.002416,55.772148],[-2.00241,55.772135],[-2.002377,55.772139],[-2.002351,55.772088],[-2.002364,55.772086],[-2.002355,55.772067],[-2.002379,55.772062],[-2.002371,55.772052],[-2.002382,55.772039],[-2.002376,55.772028],[-2.002358,55.772023],[-2.00235,55.772007],[-2.002312,55.772013],[-2.002299,55.771987],[-2.002239,55.771994],[-2.002231,55.771977],[-2.002205,55.771967],[-2.002149,55.771975],[-2.002139,55.771955],[-2.00211,55.771948],[-2.002072,55.771952],[-2.002069,55.771945],[-2.001991,55.771957],[-2.002116,55.77221],[-2.002241,55.772185],[-2.002254,55.772213],[-2.002301,55.772206],[-2.002316,55.772235],[-2.002345,55.772231],[-2.002382,55.772308]]],[[[-2.001813,55.771959],[-2.001949,55.772261],[-2.002046,55.772248],[-2.001913,55.771949],[-2.001813,55.771959]]]]},"type":"Feature","properties":{"entry-date":"2017-07-27","start-date":"2017-07-26","end-date":"","entity":42153071,"name":"Former Berwick Court House And Prison With Attached Wall And Detached Rear Stable Range","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"1446315","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":"220","quality":"authoritative","notes":"The listed buildings are shown coloured blue on the attached map. Pursuant to s.1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (`the Act?), structures attached to or within the curtilage of the listed building (save those coloured blue on the map) are not to be treated as part of the listed building for the purposes of the Act. Summary of Building Court house and prison with attached wall 1846-1849, to the earlier designs of Thomas Brown; prison range extended 1867 by W J Gray. Building converted to offices 1891-1892 with further C20 and early-C21 alterations. Tudor-Jacobean style. Stable range 1891-1892. Not included in the listing are the single-storey C20/C21 extensions attached to the left and right returns and the former cartshed attached to the north side of the stable. Reasons for Designation The former Berwick Court House and Prison of 1846-1849 by Thomas Brown is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: Architectural interest: * an accomplished courthouse and prison design by the leading Scottish prison designer of the period; * a distinctive composition that has a well-crafted and good quality exterior incorporating several of Brown's trademark features; * it retains a readable original layout in which the three distinct functional spaces (prison, court and domestic accommodation) are clearly defined; * significant internal fixtures remain throughout the building including joinery, fireplaces and plaster work; * it retains a relatively rare survival of an urban stable possessing significant horse-related features including timber mangers and water troughs. Historic interest: * Thomas Brown's only prison commission in England, illustrating the impact of Scottish influence on Berwick's architectural development; * a mid-C19 design that illustrates reformed Scottish principles of prison building that were not widely adopted for local prisons in England until the later C19. Group value: * the building benefits from a functional group value with the listed Old Berwick Jail and the police station and magistrate's court, which taken together represent the development and reform of crime and punishment from the mid-C18 to the early C20; * Berwick court house and prison benefits from spatial group value with a number of surrounding listed buildings lining Wallace Green and The Parade. History As early as 1837 there were proposals to replace the existing C18 Berwick Gaol with a purpose-built court house and prison. Attempts to purchase land in 1841 were unsuccessful but regardless of the lack of a building site, a new building was designed by Thomas Brown of Edinburgh which was to be built by Adam Young of Kelso at a cost of #7000. Original plans (1844) were subsequently amended (1847) after the site on Wallace Green was purchased. Construction on the Wallace Green site began in late 1846 and the building opened on 26 November 1849. This was always a very controversial project with many residents opposing the great extravagance which it was thought would be better spent improving domestic sanitation within the town. The new building is depicted on the 1:528 Berwick Town Plan published in 1855 annotated 'court house and prison': it comprises a front range courthouse and a rear range prison block with a pair of exercise yards. Original plans show the internal configuration of spaces. Within the prison wing female prisoners are housed in a linear range of cells with a washing house and bathroom and a double-cell hospital to the ground floor accessed off a corridor. Male prisoners are housed in a similar arrangement to the upper floors with an open iron gallery to the second floor. The court house range has a ground floor court and a witness waiting room, accessed by a separate public entrance and lobby. Staff rooms including matron's accommodation are accessed off a separate staff entrance and lobby. The first floor is reached via separate staff and public staircases and at its centre is a double-height chapel with adjoining chaplain's room and debtors' rooms. There is also a self-contained keeper's apartment and office, the latter overlooking the prison corridor. The chapel and keeper's apartment extend to the second floor, which also contains the under keeper's room and a store. The building was equipped with an innovative `passive air conditioning? system of heated ventilating shafts. In 1867 the prison wing was extended by local architect W J Gray, resulting in reconstruction of one of the exercise yards. By 1878 the court house and prison had gone out of use and the building was purchased by the town council for #1138; between 1891 and 1892 it was converted to offices for the Urban Sanitary Authority resulting in the insertion of a new entrance through the west elevation and various internal alterations. The rear exercise yards were replaced by a new stable and cartshed with hayloft to facilitate the work of the Sanitary Board. Late-C20 and early-C21 alterations include small single-storey extensions to the south and east elevations and the insertion of some modern openings, doors, lightweight partitions and inserted ceilings to office areas. Thomas Brown (1806-1872) began his architectural career in his father's firm and probably worked in the office of William Burn prior to being appointed as architect to the Prison Board of Scotland in 1837 when he set up an independent office in Edinburgh. He therefore had extensive experience in designing county court houses and prisons and produced standard prison designs, working on more than twenty examples in Scotland, almost all of which are listed. Brown's prisons took on board the suggestions of the prison reformers and were built to reflect contemporary ideas of observation and control, with solitary rather than mass confinement in a hygienic environment and with an emphasis on rehabilitation. Many designs could be easily enlarged by extending the cell corridor. Thomas Brown is the leading prison architect of the C19 in Scotland. Berwick is his only prison and court in England. Details Court house and prison with attached wall 1846-1849, to the earlier designs of Thomas Brown; prison range extended 1867 by W J Gray. Building converted to offices 1891-1892 with further later-C20 and early-C21 alterations. Tudor-Jacobean style. Stable range 1891-1892. MATERIALS: yellow ashlar sandstone to the front range; red sandstone to the rear prison range and stable range. Slate roofs with stone gable copings. PLAN: symmetrical front range comprising court house and associated functions including chapel, and staff accommodation. Attached to the rear is a rectangular prison range, and further to the rear a detached stable range. EXTERIOR: the main west elevation has five wide bays of two storeys and attics under pitched roofs with flat roofs to the end towers. Bays two and four project forward. There are gables over the three centre bays and battlements to the corner towers. Windows are either four-over-four unhorned and horned sashes or one-over-one horned sashes, and all have hood moulds; there are also first floor and eaves strings. Double-height canted bay windows with castellated parapets occupy bays two and four, and the wider central bay has end projections rising to paired polygonal chimneys with a high gable between them and a tall ventilation chimney rising behind. There are paired windows to the ground floor with a plaque recording the Sanitation Board's residency to the parapet above, and a porch to the right with stepped groups of lights above. The towers to either side have narrow lights to each floor and battlements with corner chimney stacks. The rear prison range extends slightly to the right beyond the front range, with three storeys and a castellated parapet. The left and right returns contain separate entrances for staff an d public respectively. The staff entrance has short flanking stone walls and squat polygonal piers, and a six-panel door and overlight; the public entrance is blocked with an inserted window. The left return has an attached wall wit0001","listed-building":"1446315"}},{"geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[-1.815082,55.150123],[-1.815079,55.150131],[-1.815092,55.150128],[-1.815089,55.150124],[-1.815082,55.150123]]]]},"type":"Feature","properties":{"entry-date":"2019-09-11","start-date":"2018-08-28","end-date":"","entity":42153072,"name":"Meldon War Memorial","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"1458498","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":"220","quality":"authoritative","notes":"Summary of Building Stone base for a flagpole, commemorating First World War service by parishioners. Reasons for Designation Meldon War Memorial, which stands outside the former School House, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: Historic interest: * as an eloquent witness to the impact of world events on the local community, and the contribution it made in the First World War. Architectural interest: * an unusual First World War memorial comprising the surviving simple yet monumental flagpole base. Group value: * with the Church of St John the Baptist (Grade I) and Meldon Village Farmhouse (Grade II). History The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. This was the result of both the huge impact on communities of the loss of three quarters of a million British lives, and also the official policy of not repatriating the dead, which meant that the memorials provided the main focus of the grief felt at this great loss. Nevertheless, a small number of `Thankful Villages? - a term coined by Arthur Mee in 1936 - enjoyed the safe return of all their service personnel from theatres of conflict. More than 50 Thankful Villages have been identified in England and Wales. A number of these have plaques, Rolls of Honour, church windows, and other types of memorial marking the First World War service of parishioners. Instead of a war memorial commemorating the sacrifice made by men who had died, the people of Meldon raised a flagpole to record their thanks that those who had left the parish to serve in the First World War also all came home. Funds were collected by public subscription, and the memorial was made by Mr Robinson of The Clear House, Meldon. The stone base and timber flagpole were erected outside the former School House (not listed). A flagpole is an unusual choice for a memorial erected in the 1920s: the majority recorded by the War Memorials Register are post-Second World War. Notable examples include Sheffield?s Grade II*-listed memorial (1925), and flagpoles erected as part of whole schemes such as in the memorial garden of the Grade II-listed Birtley Cenotaph and shelters (1923). Sir Edwin Lutyens notably incorporated flags at a number of his war memorials: in carved and painted stone (such as at Spalding War Memorial, 1922, Grade I), metal (originally at the Civil Service Rifles War Memorial, 1924, Grade II*, replaced with stone); and textile (The Cenotaph, 1920, Grade I). Meldon?s timber flagpole has since gone but the monumental stone base is still in place. Details The memorial stands outside the front wall of the former School House (unlisted), approximately 130m to the north of the Church of St John the Baptist (Grade I-listed) and approximately 75m to the north of Meldon Village Farmhouse (Grade II-listed). It takes the form of a large stone pedestal with a moulded top, standing on a two-stepped circular base. The front of the pedestal is carved in the shape of a shield. The shield bears the dedicatory inscription, reading ERECTED/ TO/ COMMEMORATE THE VICTORY/ AND/ IN GRATEFUL THANKS/ FOR THE SAFE RETURN/ OF ALL THOSE MEN/ WHO LEFT THE PARISH/ TO SERVE IN/ THE GREAT WAR. The dates 1914 and 1919 are carved to either side of the shield?s base. Selected Sources Websites North East War Memorials Project, accessed 2 July 2018 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=7987 National Grid Reference: NZ1188483991","listed-building":"1458498"}},{"geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[-1.745269,55.048152],[-1.745251,55.048162],[-1.74526,55.048176],[-1.745282,55.048177],[-1.745296,55.048168],[-1.745286,55.048154],[-1.745269,55.048152]]]]},"type":"Feature","properties":{"entry-date":"2019-09-11","start-date":"2019-04-25","end-date":"","entity":42153073,"name":"Ponteland War Memorial","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"1463542","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":"220","quality":"authoritative","notes":"Summary of Building First World War memorial, 1920, in the form of a granite obelisk, with later additions for the Second World War. Reasons for Designation Ponteland War Memorial is listed at Grade II for the following reasons: * as an eloquent witness to the tragic impact of world events on this local community, and the sacrifice it has made in the conflicts of the C20. Architectural interest: * as a good, well executed example of an obelisk-style war memorial including well carved embellishment. History The aftermath of the First World War saw the biggest single wave of public commemoration ever with tens of thousands of memorials erected across England. One such memorial was unveiled by Colonel Riddell DSO on the 16 July 1920 to commemorate the 40 local servicemen who died in the First World War. The memorial was the work of William Donaldson, a mason from Newcastle and cost #307, the money raised by public subscription. The much extended and altered Memorial Hall immediately to the east of the war memorial was built in 1922. Details War memorial, 1920. MATERIALS: granite with black lead lettering. DESCRIPTION: the memorial is in the form of an obelisk raised on top of a three stage plinth. The west side of the obelisk, facing the road, is embellished with relief carving featuring a pair of rifles largely covered by a pair of flags, their poles being crossed, all surmounted by a laurel wreath. Below the top stage of the plinth is inscribed: TO THE GLORY OF GOD/AND IN MEMORY OF/THOSE CONNECTED WITH/ THIS PARISH OF PONTELAND/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1919/ REST ETERNAL GRANT TO THEM O LORD/ AND LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE/UPON THEM. The names of those who were killed are listed on the north and south sides, including rank and regiment. The lower two stages of the plinth carries a further 24 names without further details, set below the dates 1939-1945. Selected Sources Websites North East War Memorials Project record, accessed 8 March 2019 from http://www.newmp.org.uk/detail.php?contentId=9434 )","listed-building":"1463542"}},{"geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[-2.348865,54.974691],[-2.348943,54.974691],[-2.348943,54.974638],[-2.348866,54.974637],[-2.348865,54.974691]]]]},"type":"Feature","properties":{"entry-date":"2020-03-13","start-date":"2020-03-12","end-date":"","entity":42153074,"name":"Bardon Mill Station Signal Box","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"1468393","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":"220","quality":"authoritative","notes":"Summary Railway signal box, built around 1874, by and for the North Eastern Railway Company for the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. Type N1 design of the 1870s-1890s. Reasons for Designation Bardon Mill Station Signal Box, built about 1874, is listed at Grade II for the following principle reasons: Architectural interest: * as a relatively early, little altered example of a Type N1 signal box designed by the Northern division of the NER. Historic interest: * dating from about 1874, it is one of the earliest surviving NER Type N1 signal boxes. Group value: * it benefits from a functional and spatial group value with the Grade II-listed Station House (List entry 1156426) located to the east. History From the 1840s, huts or cabins were provided for men operating railway signals. These were often located on raised platforms containing levers to operate the signals and in the early 1860s, the fully glazed signal box, initially raised high on stilts to give a good view down the line, emerged. The interlocking of signals and points, perhaps the most important single advance in rail safety, patented by John Saxby in 1856, was the final step in the evolution of railway signalling into a form recognisable today. Signal boxes were built to a great variety of different designs and sizes to meet traffic needs by signalling contractors and the railway companies themselves. Signal box numbers peaked at around 12,000-13,000 for Great Britain just prior to the First World War and successive economies in working led to large reductions in their numbers from the 1920s onwards. British Railways inherited around 10,000 in 1948 and numbers dwindled rapidly to about 4,000 by 1970, with fewer than 700 surviving today. It is anticipated that most will be rendered redundant over the next decade. The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company (N&CR) was formed in 1825 and built from 1829 onwards. The entire route was officially opened on 18 June 1838 following the construction of the line between Haydon Bridge and Blenkinsopp (near Greenhead), with Bardon Mill as an intermediate station along the line. The N&CR was absorbed into the North Eastern Railway Company (NER) in 1862. The NER divided its civil engineering and signalling into three divisions, the Southern, Central and Northern, each with its own distinctive designs. Bardon Mill Station Signal Box dates to the third phase of railway development but the initial phase in the development of signal boxes (the late 1860s-1870s). It follows the earliest standard in-house design produced by the Northern Division, which was under the direction of the NER architect Thomas Prosser, now categorised as Type N1 by the Signalling Study Group. It was built around 1874 to control the small station of Bardon Mill (List entry 1156426, Grade II) and level-crossing located east of the signal box, on the north side of the track. Bardon Mill Station Signal Box was altered to an electric circuit and reduced to unstaffed status in 1967, being retained for operational flexibility during engineering works. In 2012 seven NER Type N1s were identified: Ashington, Bedlington South, Newsham, Chathill, Haydon Bridge and Prudhoe. Chathill (built around 1873 on the North Sunderland Railway line), is listed whilst Ashington has been demolished. It is expected that none will be operational within the next decade. Bardon Mill Station Signal Box is one of the earliest Type N1s and was de-commissioned in November 2019. The railway line (now known as the Tyne Valley Line) remains operational between Newcastle-Hexham-Carlisle and currently three later NER Type N5 signal boxes, at Wylam (1897), Haltwhistle (1901) and Hexham (1901), are listed along its stretch. Details Railway signal box, built around 1874, by and for the North Eastern Railway Company for the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway. Type N1 design of the 1870s-1890s. MATERIALS: red brick laid in English Garden Wall bond with a timber porch and stairs to the upper operating floor; Welsh slate roof with round ridge tiles to the ridge and hips. EXTERIOR: prominently sited on the south side of the railway track, the two-storey signal box is built in red brick, laid to English Garden Wall bond, with foundations built in rock-faced coursed stone and a low-pitched hipped Welsh slate roof. A raised operating floor is accessed on the east side via a right-hand turn wooden stair and an external timber porch with a three-over-three window and a C20 external door. The north front (track side) and sides are continuously glazed with horizontal sliding sashes, with regular, narrow glazing bars; one sash on the east elevation and two sashes on the north and west elevations. The windows sit on a plain stone string course. At ground floor level there is a locker room with an access door below the porch in the east wall and a window in the north wall, both with stone lintels. INTERIOR: the raised operating floor retains a glass nine-pane internal porch door and ceiling with a timber hip, and jack and common roof rafters partially exposed and painted. Only part of the wooden operating floor is present following the recent removal of a reconditioned McKenzie & Holland 20-lever frame and block shelf said to be inserted around 1966. It was originally set to the rear of the box with the operator, unusually, facing away from the tracks. The locker room retains the brick support for a fireplace or stove originally set in the south wall of the raised operating floor and a nine-pane timber window frame with regular, narrow glazing bars in the north wall. Sources Books and journals Minnis, J, Railway Signal Boxes, a Review, (2012), 36 Vanns, A, The Signal Box: A Pictorial History and Guide to Designs, (1997) Websites On Track Images: Bardon Mill Signal Box 11 December 2015, accessed 11 December 2019 from https://www.ontrackimages.org.uk/p116376410/h6C352FD6#h6c352fd6","listed-building":"1468393"}},{"geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[-2.006769,55.770607],[-2.006835,55.770622],[-2.006857,55.770593],[-2.006788,55.770577],[-2.006769,55.770607]]]]},"type":"Feature","properties":{"entry-date":"2020-04-20","start-date":"2020-04-17","end-date":"","entity":42153075,"name":"Bank Hill Ladies Public Convenience","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"1468789","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":"220","quality":"authoritative","notes":"Summary Public convenience, 1899. Reasons for Designation Bankhill ladies public convenience of 1899 is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: Architectural interest: * for its attractive half-timbered rustic cottage design, which would have been considered most appropriate as a ladies public convenience at the end of the C19; * although a modest structure, it illustrates attention to detail including chamfered timber details, over-hanging eaves, decorative barge boards and red fish scale roof tiles with ornate finials; * the original plan-form remains legible and original fixtures and fittings remain including geometric floor tiles, glazed white wall tiles and painted timber cladding in addition to the original ornate roof structure. Historic interest: * ladies public conveniences are very rare at this time, and this is an important example that illustrates the changing social status of women in the late C19. Group value: * they benefit from a clear spatial group value with numerous listed buildings and the scheduled remains of the medieval and post-medieval fortifications of Berwick-upon-Tweed, which had become a popular pedestrian way. History The Public Health Act of 1848 called for 'Public Necessaries' to be provided to improve sanitation, and in 1851 The Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace provided toilets for visitors designed by George Jennings, a Brighton plumber. The first on-street public toilet was a 'Gents' in London of 1852 and a 'Ladies' followed the following week. Notwithstanding this, public toilet provision for women in Victorian England was generally very poor by comparison to men. William Haywood, City of London Corporation Engineer, started the first municipal public toilets in 1855. George Jennings became a campaigner for public toilets and by 1895 his public conveniences, mostly for men and underground, had spread to 36 British towns. The great architects and engineers of the Victorian and Edwardian period were encouraged by local authorities to construct public conveniences of high standard, and great importance was given to their appearance. They continued to be constructed mostly for men with few provided for women on the basis that women travelled away from home less than men, and that urinals were cheaper to construct. The socialist writer George Bernard Shaw campaigned for facilities for women, but against the feeling that it was not a decent subject. By the early C20 the attention of the first wave of feminists turned to issues of equality in relation to, for example, public facilities for women, but even so, C19 and early-C20 ladies public toilets are rare nationally, and listed examples are largely facilities for men. Public urinals for men had in 1898 been provided within the flankers at Megs Mount Bastion by the Berwick Urban Sanitary Authority, and shortly afterwards a ladies public convenience was constructed on an adjacent site at a cost of about #175; the site chosen lay opposite an entry to the pedestrian walkway created in 1837 along the top of the Elizabethan ramparts. The public convenience contained a series of three water-closets to the rear fronted by a washroom/attendants room. It opened in March 1899 with Mrs Jamieson as attendant, who was paid 2s 6d a week to open, clean and lock up. The charge for use was one penny and in the first day the takings were 5s 2d meaning that 62 people had 'spent a penny'. The toilets remained in use until the 1950s, after which the building became a general council store. In 2014 the Berwick-upon-Tweed Preservation Trust acquired the building and sympathetically restored it, receiving a civic award from the council in 2015. It has recently (January 2020) ceased its use as a cafe and ice-cream parlour. Details Public convenience for ladies, 1899. PLAN: shallow T-shaped with a west-facing entrance. MATERIALS: brick, rendered, with applied timber cladding; tiled roof and terracotta ridges and finials. EXTERIOR: situated on an undeveloped triangular shaped plot adjacent to Meg's Mount Bastion and the entry to the Elizabethan rampart walk. It is designed to resemble a rusticated cottage with geometric and curvilinear timber cladding above a plain base with chamfered timber details and painted in green and cream. The eaves are overhanging and there are decorative barge boards. The pitched roofs have alternate red fish scale and rectangular roof tiles, with decorative ridging and ornate finials. The gabled, single-bay west elevation has a deeply inset central entrance fitted with a four-panel door with rectangular fanlight (upper door panels and fanlight formerly glazed). The right and left two-bay returns have slightly projecting rear gabled bays, and the rear single-bay elevation has an upper triangular-shaped window. INTERIOR: the floor is laid with geometric patterned floor tiles with borders, and the walls have glazed white tiles to a moulded dado, with painted vertical wood cladding above. The roof has a turned collar, with a decorative pendant, supporting purlins and ridge beams, and below this a substantial panelled cross beam that formerly carried a partition that divided the interior into two: the front part forming an open space, with rectangular recesses to either side of the entrance, and the rear part (formerly further divided into three separate water-closet cubicles) lit by an upper window incorporating a central louvred section. Sources Websites Bank Hill Ladies toilet, accessed 14 Janurary 2020 from http://berwickpreservationtrust.co.uk/Past%20Projects/OV_BankhillToilet.htm Legal This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.","listed-building":"1468789"}},{"geometry":{"type":"MultiPolygon","coordinates":[[[[-2.157827,55.182702],[-2.156979,55.182788],[-2.156991,55.182831],[-2.15787,55.182735],[-2.157865,55.182701],[-2.157827,55.182702]]]]},"type":"Feature","properties":{"entry-date":"2020-12-07","start-date":"2020-12-04","end-date":"","entity":42153076,"name":"East Woodburn Bridge","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"1471162","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":"220","quality":"authoritative","notes":"Summary of Building Masonry bridge, early C18 and partially rebuilt in 1832. Reasons for Designation East Woodburn Bridge, of 1832, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: Architectural interest: * an unaltered early-C19 bridge that falls within the period when most bridges are listed; * an elegant bridge with an impressive, wide basket arch that demonstrates skill and ambition in its design; * it is an intact structure that retains the stone-built western approach of it?s predecessor an early-C18 packhorse bridge. Historic interest: * situated on a historic droving route it illustrates the significance of cattle droving between England and Scotland, and the development of early infrastructure in a pre-motorised age. History Droving, by which large numbers of sheep and cattle were moved over long distances, has been an important aspect of Northumberland for over a thousand years. Numerous route ways and associated features remain as important elements of the landscape. One such route was a drove road between Scotland and England which loosely followed the course of the Roman road Dere Street. Woodburn Old Bridge (now East Woodburn Bridge) was constructed in the early C18 to carry this drove road across the River Rede; a partly legible inscription at the west end of the bridge approach reads 1715 or 1735. The bridge is published in John Hodgson's 1827 History of Northumberland, accompanied by an illustration by Edward Swinburne entitled 'on the drift way for Black Cattle from Scotland'. The bridge is depicted as a tall, pack-horse bridge with a straight western approach. This bridge was replaced in the early C19 by a shallow basket arch bridge, and the early-C18 approach road was retained. The rebuilt bridge bears a date stone of 1832. Details Masonry bridge, early C18 and partially rebuilt 1832. MATERIALS: dressed and rusticated sandstone to the bridge; rougher sandstone blocks to the western approach. PLAN: a single-span bridge with western approach incorporating a flood arch. DESCRIPTION: a basket-arch bridge carrying a former drove road across the River Rede. The shallow, wide arch springs from short imposts and has rusticated voussoirs and a slightly projecting, narrow key stone, below a rusticated, moulded string course. The arch is defined by stepped piers with saddle cap stones, and the low parapet has shallower, but similar coping stones. One of the faces of the parapet bears an inscription within a cartouche reading: ERECTED/?/COUNTY/1832. The eastern end of the bridge has a curving wing wall, and the western end has an earlier, straight approach incorporating a smaller, round flood-arch with springers. A faint engraving on the western end of the approach is reported to read 1715 or 1735. Selected Sources Books and journals Hodgson, J, History of Northumberland Volume 2, (1827), 167 Roberts, I , Carlton, R , Rushworth, A, Drove Roads of Northumberland, (2010), 120-127","listed-building":"1471162"}}],"links":{"first":"http://www.planning.data.gov.uk/entity.geojson?organisation_entity=220&limit=10","last":"http://www.planning.data.gov.uk/entity.geojson?offset=10830&organisation_entity=220&limit=10","next":"http://www.planning.data.gov.uk/entity.geojson?offset=1360&organisation_entity=220&limit=10","prev":"http://www.planning.data.gov.uk/entity.geojson?offset=1340&organisation_entity=220&limit=10"}}