Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
25743
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
12/09/2001  
Date of Amendment
12/09/2001  
Name of Property
War Memorial at Christ Church  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Denbighshire  
Community
Prestatyn  
Town
 
Locality
Prestatyn  
Easting
306702  
Northing
382787  
Street Side
E  
Location
Close to the west end of Christ Church, within the churchyard.  

Description


Broad Class
Commemorative  
Period
 

History
Built in c1919-1923 to the design of L W Barnard, who was also architect for the completion of Christ Church in 1927.  

Exterior
An octagonal monument in oolitic limestone and in late Gothic form, in three stages. The lowest has bronze plaques recording the fallen in the Great War and additional plaques for the names of the fallen in the Second World War. The second stage, slightly reduced, consists of blind tabernacles beneath crocketted ogee arches, with a band of two quatrefoils in each bay at foot. One tabernacle is trefoil-headed and contains a statue of a soldier of the Great War with arms reversed. The top stage, further reduced, is of eight openings with crocketted ogee headed arches and separating buttresses, the latter braced by little flying-buttresses to the finials of the lower buttresses. Gargoyles at the top and bottom of the top stage and further quatrefoil sinkings between. Top finials crocketted. The base is four ashlar steps in local limestone, on a paved platform.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
A fine memorial of the Great War, in late Gothic form with carved stonework of superior craftsmanship, by the same architect as the completion of Christ Church.  

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