Boer Wall Memorial Approximately 40 Metres North Of Chapel Of Sedbergh School

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SEDBERGH

SD6591 LOFTUS HILL, Sedbergh Town 162-1/20/403 (West side) Boer War Memorial approx. 40m north of Chapel at Sedbergh School

GV II

War memorial. Probably c1902-5. Commemorates 8 former pupils of Sedbergh School who died in the second South African War (1899-1902). Red sandstone. Square plan. Four-step plinth, square base with lettered panel in each side, square tapered shaft with chamfered corners, chamfered cornice and wheel cross. The panels on the base each have 2 bands of raised lettering in Arts-and-Crafts style giving the names and units of the fallen, with the dates and places of their deaths (one of them awarded the Victoria Cross).





Listing NGR: SD6578791815

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1725 IOE Records taken by David Robson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr David Robson. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project