THE WAR MEMORIAL

THE WAR MEMORIAL, WEST STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283747
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: THE WAR MEMORIAL
Statutory Address:: THE WAR MEMORIAL, WEST STREET

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Date:: 2001-03-05
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1283747
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: THE WAR MEMORIAL
Statutory Address 1:: THE WAR MEMORIAL, WEST 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:: THE WAR MEMORIAL, WEST STREET

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District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lacock
National Grid Reference:: ST 91523 68426

Details

LACOCK WEST STREET ST 9168 (west side) 4/166 The War Memorial GV II

War Memorial, 1920, reusing early C18 monumental aedicule frame of memorial to Sir John Talbot (d 1714) in parish church. Ashlar, segmental pediment with ornate armorial trophy in tympanum and finely moulded entablature supported on two Corinthian columns standing on fielded panelled base. Ashlar infill of 1920 with niche and standing cross over inscription panel. Rubble stone concave-curved flanking walls and piers. Memorial formerly stood in north east chapel and was removed to unblock window in late C19, plaque is resited on chancel wall.

Listing NGR: ST9152668427

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, 16 December 2016.

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Legacy System number:: 315602
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 16/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/157064
War Memorials Register, accessed 16/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/24095

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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.