HAMDON HILL WAR MEMORIAL

HAMDON HILL WAR MEMORIAL, HAM HILL ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241897
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: HAMDON HILL WAR MEMORIAL
Statutory Address:: HAMDON HILL WAR MEMORIAL, HAM HILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1241897
Date first listed:: 27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: HAMDON HILL WAR MEMORIAL
Statutory Address 1:: HAMDON HILL WAR MEMORIAL, HAM HILL ROAD

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: HAMDON HILL WAR MEMORIAL, HAM HILL ROAD

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District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Stoke sub Hamdon
National Grid Reference:: ST 47707 17311

Details

ST4717 STOKE SUB HAMDON CP HAM HILL ROAD (East side,off) 6/306 Hamdon Hill War Memorial - - II First World War memorial. 1920/23, Ham stone pecked ashlar. Three square- step base, about 4.5 metres wide and 1.5 metre high, the cuboid plinth with one plain panel each face, simple cornice, then a stone obelisk about 6 metres high. The names of the war dead inscribed in the panels; on the north face an added bronze plaque with the names of the 1939-45 war dead, and set on the north face of the obelisk a bronze wreath placed by the Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, on 19th July 1923. This is a very prominent landmark on the spur of Hamdon Hill, located within the Ham Hill Country Park.

Listing NGR: ST4770717311

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, 14 December 2016.

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War Memorials Online, accessed 14/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/166808
War Memorials Register, accessed 14/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1358

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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.