WAR MEMORIAL, THE GREEN

WAR MEMORIAL, THE GREEN, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390566
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-2003
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL, THE GREEN
Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL, THE GREEN, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390566
Date first listed:: 14-Aug-2003
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL, THE GREEN
Statutory Address 1:: WAR MEMORIAL, THE GREEN, HIGH STREET

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:: WAR MEMORIAL, THE GREEN, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Waverley (District Authority)
Parish:: Haslemere
National Grid Reference:: SU 90491 32849

Details

HASLEMERE

915/0/10008 HIGH STREET 14-AUG-03 War Memorial, The Green

II War memorial. 1920-21, designed by Inigo Triggs, a local architect, and authorised by Sir Algernon Methuen, chairman of the War Memorial committees. Built of natural sedimentary limestone. Comprises a tall octagonal shaft, battered to the base, surmounted by a stone cross with gable, the whole standing on two square stone plinths and a stone base. The upper plinth facing north has the inscription "WE DIED FOR ENGLAND. SEE THAT YOU LIVE FOR HER" and "TO THE MEMORY OF HASLEMERE MEN WHO LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919." Names of the fallen are carved on the sides of the lower plinth and three metal plaques to the top plinth on the south , east and west sides commemorate those who fell in the Second World War. The War Memorial cost ?362.

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, 6 December 2016.

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Legacy System number:: 490514
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 06/12/2016 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/100477
War Memorials Register, accessed 06/12/2016 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/23646

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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.