THE VICTORY MEMORIAL

THE VICTORY MEMORIAL, NR THORPE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391663
Date first listed:: 15-May-2006
List Entry Name:: THE VICTORY MEMORIAL
Statutory Address:: THE VICTORY MEMORIAL, NR THORPE LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391663
Date first listed:: 15-May-2006
List Entry Name:: THE VICTORY MEMORIAL
Statutory Address 1:: THE VICTORY MEMORIAL, NR THORPE LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: THE VICTORY MEMORIAL, NR THORPE LANE

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Fountains Earth
National Grid Reference:: SE1016273553

Details

1435/0/10021 15-MAY-06

FOUNTAINS EARTH NR THORPE LANE Lofthouse The Victory Memorial

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War memorial, 1919, in sandstone. It consists of a block of squared coursed rusticated stones with a pedimented top and a rectangular trough in front. The roof of the block is of stone slates with a raised ridge. The trough has the word VICTORY inscribed along the front, and in the pediment are recorded the start of the War on August 4 1914, the signing of the Armistice on November 11 1918, and peace declared on June 28 1919. It was remodelled by local stonemason Duncan Drummond from an earlier fountain on the site at one end of the village street in Lofthouse. A further War Memorial was constructed in the village, remodelled from a drinking fountain.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE This First World War Victory Memorial is of significance as a reminder of the importance of the war in the history of every community in the country, and is unusual in its commemoration of the dates of the war rather than of the men who died in the course of it.

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, 1 February 2017.

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War Memorials Online, accessed 1 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/214991
War Memorials Register, accessed 1 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/30197

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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.