CRIMEA MONUMENT IN LANCASTER CEMETERY

CRIMEA MONUMENT IN LANCASTER CEMETERY, QUERNMORE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298304
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: CRIMEA MONUMENT IN LANCASTER CEMETERY
Statutory Address:: CRIMEA MONUMENT IN LANCASTER CEMETERY, QUERNMORE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298304
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: CRIMEA MONUMENT IN LANCASTER CEMETERY
Statutory Address 1:: CRIMEA MONUMENT IN LANCASTER CEMETERY, QUERNMORE ROAD

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

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

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:: CRIMEA MONUMENT IN LANCASTER CEMETERY, QUERNMORE ROAD

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 49189 61969

Details

LANCASTER

SD46SE QUERNMORE ROAD 1685-1/1/250 (North side (off)) Crimea Monument in Lancaster Cemetery

II

Crimean War memorial. c1860. Carboniferous limestone. An obelisk, standing on 3 deep steps and consisting of a square plinth and tapering shaft set on a square base. Each face of the plinth is topped by a Grecian pediment. On the west side the base of the shaft is inscribed 'CRIMEA', and the plinth is inscribed: 'TO THE IMPERISHABLE MEMORY OF THE BRAVE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS, NATIVES OF LANCASTER AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WHO FELL IN THE RUSSIAN WAR, A.D. MDCCCLIV.V.VI. THIS MONUMENT ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTIONS IS DEDICATED.' On other faces are inscribed the names of those soldiers who died.

Listing NGR: SD4918961969

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, 2 February 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 383284
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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War Memorials Online, accessed 2 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/206511
War Memorials Register, accessed 2 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/42350

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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.