War Memorial at Elstow Lower School

WAR MEMORIAL AT ELSTOW LOWER SCHOOL, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1390600
Date first listed:
19-Aug-2003
Statutory Address:
WAR MEMORIAL AT ELSTOW LOWER SCHOOL, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

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

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

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

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