GREAT WAR MEMORIAL CROSS AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE ON TERRACE IN MIDDLE OF SOUTH FRONT

GREAT WAR MEMORIAL CROSS AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE ON TERRACE IN MIDDLE OF SOUTH FRONT, LONDON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1359646
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: GREAT WAR MEMORIAL CROSS AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE ON TERRACE IN MIDDLE OF SOUTH FRONT
Statutory Address:: GREAT WAR MEMORIAL CROSS AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE ON TERRACE IN MIDDLE OF SOUTH FRONT, LONDON ROAD

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Date:: 2001-07-12
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1359646
Date first listed:: 30-Sep-1983
List Entry Name:: GREAT WAR MEMORIAL CROSS AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE ON TERRACE IN MIDDLE OF SOUTH FRONT
Statutory Address 1:: GREAT WAR MEMORIAL CROSS AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE ON TERRACE IN MIDDLE OF SOUTH FRONT, LONDON ROAD

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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:: GREAT WAR MEMORIAL CROSS AT HAILEYBURY AND IMPERIAL SERVICE COLLEGE ON TERRACE IN MIDDLE OF SOUTH FRONT, LONDON ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford Heath
National Grid Reference:: TL 35800 10675

Details

GREAT AMWELL LONDON ROAD TL 3510 (east side) Hertford Heath 14/13 Great War Memorial Cross at Haileybury and Imperial Service College on terrace in middle of south front

GV II

War memorial. 1923 by Reginald Blomfield. Portland Stone 'Cross of Sacrifice'. A tall tapering cross with tapering arms and expanded terminals. Deeply chamfered rectangular section continued through moulded base of cross, large inscribed drum with its stepped foot on 2 steps of unequal height and corresponding plinth bringing it up to the level of the terrace. All of an elongated octagonal plan parallel with the S range of the main Quad. On the front (S) a large Damascus sword in bronze originally gilded. A simple monument on the central axis of the S front. Included for group value. (Blunt (1966) 22,28).

Listing NGR: TL3580010675

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, 12 January 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 355850
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Blunt, W J W, The Haileybury Buildings, (1966), 22+28
Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 12 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/92177
War Memorials Register, accessed 12 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/32154

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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.