War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, UPPER HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391140
- Date first listed:
- 05-Oct-2004
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, UPPER HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391140
- Date first listed:
- 05-Oct-2004
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, UPPER HIGH STREET
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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, UPPER HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- South Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Thame
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 70908 05668
Details
THAME
1707/1/10006 UPPER HIGH STREET
05-OCT-04 War Memorial
GV II
War memorial. 1920. Portland stone with bronze plaques.
Square base with a short stone pier at each corner. Four shallow stone steps are topped by a large square stone with battered sides and a large bronze plaque on the front. This plaque records the names of all those from Thame who died in the Great War. The chamfered top of this stone has another small battered stone above with a further inscription. Above again an octagonal stone with moulded base and carved entablature. The three front faces to this stone have bronze panels bearing an inscription and the names of those who died in the Second World War. Above again a tall Saxon cross with an octagonal shaft inscribed with a band of quatrofoils at the base and blind arcading above.
This war memorial was unveiled by the Rt Hon David Lloyd George, Prime Minister, on 30th July, 1921.
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, 11 January 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492061
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 11 January 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/31715
War Memorials Online, accessed 11 January 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/92603
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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