Description

BURY ST EDMUNDS

TL8564SW CORNHILL
639-1/7/291 Boer War Memorial

GV II

Memorial to the 193 Suffolk men who died in the Boer War.
1904. By AG Walker. Stone. On an island site in the centre of
Cornhill. The monument stands on a low raised platform paved
with stone setts and surrounded by iron railings with low
square vase-shaped stone posts. It takes the form of a stone
rectangular table tomb with small moulded pillars recessed at
the angles and egg-and-dart ornament round the top. Each face
is panelled, the panels on the south, east and west with the
names of those killed, that on the north with the words
VULNERATUS NON VICTUS above the arms of West Suffolk, and an
inscription below which reads: THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY
SUFFOLK PEOPLE AS A MEMORIAL TO SUFFOLK SOLDIERS WHO LOST
THEIR LIVES IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR 1899-1902. On the coffin
lid a bare-headed soldier is seated in a defensive attitude,
grasping a rifle, with his fallen helmet lying on the rocks
below.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Radcliffe E: Suffolk:
London: 1974-: 150).

Listing NGR: TL8527464342

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, 13 January 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26342851

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)