Allendale war memorial given listed status
Two war memorials in Northumberland were listed yesterday to coincide with Armistice Day.
The St Cuthbert's Church Lychgate War Memorial in Allendale (pictured) 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.
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