North East war memorials granted listed status

Nov 12 2009 by Tony Henderson, The Journal

TWO war memorials in Northumberland were listed yesterday to coincide with Armistice Day.

The St Cuthbert’s Church Lychgate War Memorial in Allendale was unveiled on August 1, 1920 by Viscountess Allendale and includes the names of the 22 local men who lost their lives in the First World War and the two men who died in the Second World War.

Among the many forms which war memorials took after the First World War were church lychgates.

Examples include Bellingham, Acklington, St John Lee, Ingram and Newbrough in Northumberland, and Durham City and Witton Gilbert in County Durham. In 2006 a grant of £2,900 was awarded for the care of the lychgate memorial at St Cuthbert’s Church from a fund backed by English Heritage, the War Memorials Trust and the Wolfson Foundation.

Also newly listed is the Tweedmouth war memorial in the Berwick’s Main Street.

It was commissioned by the town’s inhabitants and is situated between the Royal Border and Berwick Bridges. In the form of a kneeling female figure, it records the 117 men who fell in the First World War, three men who fell in the Second World War and a single serviceman who died in the Falklands.