Boer War Memorial
BOER WAR MEMORIAL, CORNHILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076927
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Boer War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- BOER WAR MEMORIAL, CORNHILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1076927
- Date first listed:
- 30-Oct-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Boer War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOER WAR MEMORIAL, CORNHILL
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BOER WAR MEMORIAL, CORNHILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- West Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bury St. Edmunds
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 85274 64342
Details
BURY ST EDMUNDS
TL8564SW CORNHILL
639-1/7/291 Boer War Memorial
GV II
Memorial to the 193 Suffolk men who died in the Boer War.
1904. By AG Walker. Stone. On an island site in the centre of
Cornhill. The monument stands on a low raised platform paved
with stone setts and surrounded by iron railings with low
square vase-shaped stone posts. It takes the form of a stone
rectangular table tomb with small moulded pillars recessed at
the angles and egg-and-dart ornament round the top. Each face
is panelled, the panels on the south, east and west with the
names of those killed, that on the north with the words
VULNERATUS NON VICTUS above the arms of West Suffolk, and an
inscription below which reads: THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY
SUFFOLK PEOPLE AS A MEMORIAL TO SUFFOLK SOLDIERS WHO LOST
THEIR LIVES IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899-1902. On the coffin
lid a bare-headed soldier is seated in a defensive attitude,
grasping a rifle, with his fallen helmet lying on the rocks
below.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk:
London: 1974-: 150).
Listing NGR: TL8527464342
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, 13 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 466761
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Suffolk, (1974), 150
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 13 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2037
War Memorials Online, accessed 13 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/120520
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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