WAR MEMORIAL AT JUNCTION WITH CHURCH STREET

WAR MEMORIAL AT JUNCTION WITH CHURCH STREET, BALDOCK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1275416
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL AT JUNCTION WITH CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL AT JUNCTION WITH CHURCH STREET, BALDOCK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1275416
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-1995
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL AT JUNCTION WITH CHURCH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: WAR MEMORIAL AT JUNCTION WITH CHURCH STREET, BALDOCK STREET

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

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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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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:: WAR MEMORIAL AT JUNCTION WITH CHURCH STREET, BALDOCK STREET

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County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Ware
National Grid Reference:: TL 35626 14410

Details

WARE TOWN

TL3514SE BALDOCK STREET 829-1/9/42 (East side) War Memorial at junction with Church Street

GV II

War memorial. 1921. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield. Portland stone memorial, incorporating central 'cross of sacrifice', with octagonal shaft and arms, with bronze sword fixed to face. Base of diminishing octagonal offsets, rising from central plinth. Screen walls, left and right, incorporate cast panels with fossil aggregate, with lead lettering recording names of the casualties. Return ends in Portland stone, with offset coping with segmental curved profile top, and moulded pilaster bases. Base of memorial has raised curved Portland stone step, and red brick herringbone-pattern paving. (Edwards E and Perman D: Ware's Past In Pictures: Ware: 1991-: 143; Architects in Perspective: Fellows RA: Sir Reginald Blomfield: London: 1985-: 104, 174).

Listing NGR: TL3562614410

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, 24 July 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 412278
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Edwards, , Perman, , Wares Past in Pictures, (1991), 143
Fellows, R A, Sir Reginald Blomfield. An Edwardian Architect, (1985), 104
Fellows, R A, Sir Reginald Blomfield. An Edwardian Architect, (1985), 174
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 12 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/118924
War Memorials Register, accessed 24 July 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/3745

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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.