Boer War Memorial in Victoria Park
BOER WAR MEMORIAL IN VICTORIA PARK, ST HELEN'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197067
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Boer War Memorial in Victoria Park
- Statutory Address:
- BOER WAR MEMORIAL IN VICTORIA PARK, ST HELEN'S ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1197067
- Date first listed:
- 01-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Boer War Memorial in Victoria Park
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOER WAR MEMORIAL IN VICTORIA PARK, ST HELEN'S ROAD
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.
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 IN VICTORIA PARK, ST HELEN'S ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 41658 07951
Details
ORMSKIRK
SD40NW ST HELEN'S ROAD
663-1/4/174 (East side)
Boer War Memorial in Victoria Park
II
Boer War memorial. c.1905. Red sandstone with bronze plaques.
Obelisk type. Square base with square corner piers approx. 1
metre high, slightly tapered and the sides carved in narrow
panels with floral patterns in Art Nouveau style. Between the
piers on the east side the base has a bronze panel with raised
lettering: "TO THE MEMORY OF BRAVE / MEN WHO HAVE FOUGHT / FOR
THEIR COUNTRY THIS /COLUMN HAS BEEN ERECTED / BY PUBLIC
SUBSCRIPTION". The square pedestal to the obelisk has a
similar plaque above this, headed with the words: SERGT. MAJOR
NUNNERLY OF THE 17TH LANCERS ONE OF THE SIX HUNDRED. DIED
NOVEMBER 22ND 1905" (commemorating a survivor from the Charge
of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, who became a
draper in Ormskirk); and the name and details of one Boer War
casualty below this. The west side has a similar plaque with
the details of two other Boer War casualties.
Listing NGR: SD4165807951
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, 2 February 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386414
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 2 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/3409
War Memorials Online, accessed 2 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/119234
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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