Description

BENENDEN
TQ8133 THE STREET
1350-0/7/145 (North East side)
War Memorial
GV II
War Memorial. c.1920, Sculptor Albert Toft, cast at Albion Art
Foundry, Parsons Green. Bronze seated statue of female in
flowing robes, leaning on a shield and holding laurel wreath
in her left hand on rectangular stepped stone plinth about 7
feet 6 inches long. Inscription on bronze plaque at the top of
the plinth reads "To the memory of the men of Benenden who
fought and died for justice and liberty in the Great War
1914-18. Their name liveth for evermore". On a bronze plaque
below are inscribed the names of local men who died in the 1st
World War and below those who died in the Second World War.

Listing NGR: TQ8101132862

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 December 2016.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26371278

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)