Description

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/09/2017

SK 44 SW,
2/108

PARISH OF WEST HALLAM,
THE VILLAGE (south side),
War Memorial

II

War memorial. c1920. Sandstone ashlar and white marble. Three steps up to
stone base in the form of a tall chest tomb. Three white marble panels inscribed
with the names of those who died. Cut away corners at the top, and between the
panels, incised decorative foliage motifs. Along the base, inscription FOR GOD
KING AND COUNTRY. Leaning across the steps is a stone wreath flanked by panels
inscribed with the names of those killed in the Second World War. The chest base
has a moulded cornice and supports a sculpture of two soldiers, one standing,
one kneeling, and a machine gun on a tripod base, up which grow oak leaves. The
base of the sculpture inscribed ROLL OF HONOUR/MEN OF/WEST HALLAM WHO SERVED IN
THE GREAT WAR 1914-18.

Listing NGR: SK4323641212

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, 25 January 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501407

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)