War Memorial

WAR MEMORIAL, ARDWICK GREEN PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1283047
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1994
Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL, ARDWICK GREEN PARK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1283047
Date first listed:
06-Jun-1994
Statutory Address 1:
WAR MEMORIAL, ARDWICK GREEN PARK

Location

Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL, ARDWICK GREEN PARK

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

District:
Manchester (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SJ 85075 97267

Details

MANCHESTER

SJ8597 ARDWICK GREEN PARK, Ardwick
698-1/20/477 (South side)
War Memorial

GV II

War memorial. Early 1920s. Portland stone. Square section.
Base of 3 steps, plinth with sphinx lettered "EGYPT", tall
square pedestal with inscriptions and festoons, clasped by
Ionic columns at the corners with entablature including
lettered frieze and dentilled cornice with scrolled blocking
course. North side of pedestal inscribed "GLORIOUS MEMORY OF
MEMBERS OF THE 8TH (ARDWICK) BATTALION MANCHESTER REGIMENT
(etc) 1914-1918"; west side with similar lettering
commemorating 1939-1945. Raised lettering on the frieze
("FLANDERS " on north side. "EGYPT" on west side, etc).


Listing NGR: SJ8507597267

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, 30 January 2017.

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387887
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Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/2793
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/247846

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