WAR MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 17 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ENGLISH LODGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366887
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 17 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ENGLISH LODGE
Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 17 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ENGLISH LODGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1366887
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1986
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 17 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ENGLISH LODGE
Statutory Address 1:: WAR MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 17 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ENGLISH LODGE

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 17 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ENGLISH LODGE

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District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Alberbury with Cardeston
National Grid Reference:: SJ3580314331

Details

SJ 3514 SJ 35802 14329 ALBERBURY WITH ALBERBURY CARDESTON C.P.

12/20 War memorial approx. - 17 metres to south-east of English Lodge

GV II

War memorial. Dated 1919, by Mrs Alfred Sotheby (nee Leighton). Limestone ashlar. Pedestal design in a free classical style. Square base with 3 steps, moulded plinth, cyma-recta moulded cornice with egg and dart and bead and reel enrichment, top with carved festoons, and crowning octagonal aedicule with Ionic columns supporting entablature and ogee dome with cross finial, and with urn within. Moulded shouldered-arched recessed panels, commemorating the dead of the "1914-19" (sic) war to east and west, and the "1939-45" war to north; north side: moulded recessed panel with a boss relief in the style of Burne-Jones depicting a soldier and angel, flanking Ionic type pilasters with carved foliage decoration resting on plinth, carved foliage frieze, and blind round arch above with moulded architrave and carved scrolled keystone; tympanum inscribed: "FOR GOD/KING AND COUNTRY" and plinth inscribed: "THE PEOPLE OF ALBERBURY, BAUSLEY, CARDESTON/AND WATTLESBOROUGH ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL IN 1919/ IN HONOUR OF THE GLORIOUS DEAD HEREON INSCRIBED/AND IN ORDER THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS MIGHT PRAISE/THEIR GREAT GALLANTRY AND THE SACRIFICE OF THOSE WHO, SO WILLING, GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914-19 AND IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945". Mrs Sotheby was the daughter of Sir Baldwin Leighton (d. 1897) and was much influenced in her youth by Burne-Jones, a friend of the family. B.O.E., p.54.

Listing NGR: SJ3580314331

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, 19 January 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 258925
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 54
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/86558
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/37888

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.