War Memorial Approximately 17 Metres to South East of English Lodge
WAR MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 17 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ENGLISH LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366887
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial Approximately 17 Metres to South East of English Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 17 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ENGLISH LODGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1366887
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1986
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial Approximately 17 Metres to South East of English Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 17 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ENGLISH LODGE
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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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL APPROXIMATELY 17 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF ENGLISH LODGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alberbury with Cardeston
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ3580314331
Details
SJ 3514
SJ 35802 14329 ALBERBURY WITH ALBERBURY
CARDESTON C.P.
12/20 War memorial approx.
- 17 metres to south-east
of English Lodge
GV II
War memorial. Dated 1919, by Mrs Alfred Sotheby (nee Leighton). Limestone
ashlar. Pedestal design in a free classical style. Square base with
3 steps, moulded plinth, cyma-recta moulded cornice with egg and dart and
bead and reel enrichment, top with carved festoons, and crowning
octagonal aedicule with Ionic columns supporting entablature and ogee
dome with cross finial, and with urn within. Moulded shouldered-arched
recessed panels, commemorating the dead of the "1914-19" (sic) war to
east and west, and the "1939-45" war to north; north side: moulded recessed
panel with a boss relief in the style of Burne-Jones depicting a soldier
and angel, flanking Ionic type pilasters with carved foliage decoration
resting on plinth, carved foliage frieze, and blind round arch above with
moulded architrave and carved scrolled keystone; tympanum inscribed:
"FOR GOD/KING AND COUNTRY" and plinth inscribed: "THE PEOPLE OF ALBERBURY,
BAUSLEY, CARDESTON/AND WATTLESBOROUGH ERECTED THIS MEMORIAL IN 1919/
IN HONOUR OF THE GLORIOUS DEAD HEREON INSCRIBED/AND IN ORDER THAT
FUTURE GENERATIONS MIGHT PRAISE/THEIR GREAT GALLANTRY AND THE SACRIFICE
OF THOSE WHO, SO WILLING, GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY/ IN THE
GREAT WAR OF 1914-19 AND IN THE WORLD WAR 1939-1945". Mrs Sotheby
was the daughter of Sir Baldwin Leighton (d. 1897) and was much influenced
in her youth by Burne-Jones, a friend of the family. B.O.E., p.54.
Listing NGR: SJ3580314331
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, 19 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 258925
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 54
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 19 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/37888
War Memorials Online, accessed 19 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/86558
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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