War Memorial
WAR MEMORIAL, GRANVILLE PARK
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391667
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-2006
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address:
- WAR MEMORIAL, GRANVILLE PARK
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1391667
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-2006
- List Entry Name:
- War Memorial
- Statutory Address 1:
- WAR MEMORIAL, GRANVILLE PARK
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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, GRANVILLE PARK
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- West Lancashire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Aughton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 40136 05627
Details
AUGHTON
1283/0/10042 GRANVILLE PARK
11-APR-06 WAR MEMORIAL
II
War memorial, 1922, in white granite. 6.5m tall. Two-stepped base surmounted by plinth and obelisk. Inscription on bronze plaque on south face of plinth reads To the memory of / those of this parish / who fell / in the Great War / 1914 - 1918/ "Sons of this place / let this of you be said / that you who live / are worthy of your dead / these gave their lives / that you who live may reap / a richer harvest / ere you fall asleep"/ Rev. T.F.Royds.
Bronze plaques with laurel leaves depicted on the edges of each plaque and a laurel garland carved in relief above the plaques commemorate the names of the dead in the First World War on three sides of the plinth. South face of the plinth has a bronze plaque commemorating the names of the dead in the Second World War at its base. There are decorative carvings around the top of the plinth and a thin band of decorative carving on the plinth below the First World War commemorative plaques.
HISTORY: First World War memorial with Second World War additions situated in the Garden of Remembrance, Granville Park, Aughton. It was unveiled on the 11th February 1922 by the 17th Earl of Derby, rededicated on the 16th October 1948, and restored and rededicated in 2001.
Sources: United Kingdom National Inventory of War Memorials. Ref 3402.
Summary of Importance:
This First World War memorial with Second World War additions is carved in white granite and forms an attractive memorial to the dead of two world wars.
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Online. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 2 February 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 495299
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 2 February 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/3402
War Memorials Online, accessed 2 February 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/119241
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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