War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, BRIDGE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389412
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-2000
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, BRIDGE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389412
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-2000
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Sept-2001
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, BRIDGE ROAD
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.
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, BRIDGE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Leicester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK6082804847
Details
718/0/10162
03-SEP-00
BRIDGE ROAD
War Memorial
II
War memorial. 1920. By George Mawbey. Limestone ashlar with bronze plaque and slate panels. The memorial is in a form of a cenotaph and stands on a stepped plinth. On the front are two slate panels with the names of the 133 Fallen from the Old Boys of Bridge Road School (school itself demolished in 1980's) as the description above details. Over this four brackets reading also as a cross hold an unusual plaque showing in relief 3 nude figures. The iconography of 2 boys, both kneeling, one holding a wreath over the dead body of a young man, refers to the nature of those honoured by the memorial. The memorial was funded by voluntary subscription by former pupils and teachers of the school and the designer was himself a former pupil.
This well-designed memorial with its unusual iconography and subject of those honoured is a particularly eloquent witness to the effect of the 1st World War.
Listing NGR: SK6082804847
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, 14 March 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488071
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 14 March 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/37757
War Memorials Online, accessed 14 March 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/86680
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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