WAR MEMORIAL AT ELSTOW LOWER SCHOOL

WAR MEMORIAL AT ELSTOW LOWER SCHOOL, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390600
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-2003
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL AT ELSTOW LOWER SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: WAR MEMORIAL AT ELSTOW LOWER SCHOOL, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1390600
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-2003
List Entry Name:: WAR MEMORIAL AT ELSTOW LOWER SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: WAR MEMORIAL AT ELSTOW LOWER SCHOOL, 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 AT ELSTOW LOWER SCHOOL, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Bedford (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Elstow
National Grid Reference:: TL 04940 47728

Details

ELSTOW

179/0/10008 HIGH STREET 19-AUG-03 War Memorial at Elstow Lower School

GV II War Memorial. 1919, with the names of the Second World War II War dead in 1945. G. Carroll, Craftsman. Granite. 3-tiered stepped base with chamfered edges with a truncated square plan column capped with an overhanging capital pedimented to each face above cyma reversa moulding. To west face of column, lead lettering reads: 'IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THESE MEN OF ELSTOW WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES TO PRESERVE OUR LIBERTIES IN THE GREAT WARS 1914-1918 (NAMES) 1939-1945 (NAMES) ERECTED BY THE PARISHONERS'. HISTORY: Commemorated 20 Nov 1919 by Mr. S. Howard Whitbread CB JP. SOURCES: Bedfordshire Times & Independent, 21 Nov 1919. UK National Inventory of War Memorials No. 1935. Group Value with Elstow Lower School (q.v.)

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, 10 August 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 490585
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Online, accessed 10 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/251343
War Memorials Register, accessed 16 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1935

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.