WORLD WAR I AND II MEMORIAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237533
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1994
List Entry Name:: WORLD WAR I AND II MEMORIAL
Statutory Address:: WORLD WAR I AND II MEMORIAL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1237533
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-1994
List Entry Name:: WORLD WAR I AND II MEMORIAL
Statutory Address 1:: WORLD WAR I AND II MEMORIAL

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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:: WORLD WAR I AND II MEMORIAL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Suffolk
District:: Ipswich (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TM1641745000

Details

TM1645SW 642-0/1/10049

IPSWICH CHRISTCHURCH PARK World War I and II Memorial

GV II

First World War memorial. 1922-3. By E Adams, adapted later to include Second World War. Stone over brick core. Memorial is set on a raised platform and is of rectangular section. Plinth has a splayed step rising to a short rectangular obelisk with rolled edges. Base with wreaths to north and south, commemorative bronze plaque to west and a bronze casting attached on pedestals to east. The casting is in form of a bundle of military emblems and artefacts wrapped in a flag; articles include bandoliers of ammunition, a Mk. II Browning machine gun, a Vickers gas-operated light machine gun, spears, mace and other regalia. On top of the bundle are a soldier's personal effects: uniform, helmet, gas-mask, water bottle, camouflage webbing, satchel full of Mills bombs. To north-west is a later stone-faced wall with attached bronze plaques listing names of fallen. On top of wall is a bronze lamp with the Eternal Flame.

Listing NGR: TM1641745000

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.

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Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 13 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/118082
War Memorials Register, accessed 13 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/4614
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 39 Suffolk,

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