Description

LANCASTER

SD4761NE NELSON STREET
1685-1/7/197 (South side (off))
War Memorial

GV II

War memorial. Dedicated in 1924. Sandstone ashlar and bronze.
A simple screen wall rising in steps to a taller central
section against which stands a bronze statue representing
Victory - a winged woman crowned with a laurel wreath and
carrying a palm frond. To either side, under the inscribed
text in Roman lettering: IN HONOURED MEMORY OF/ THE MEN OF
LANCASTER/ WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN/ THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919,
are 5 tall recessed panels of bronze, bearing the names of the
more than 1000 men (including 63 sets of brothers) who died.
In front of the statue, and slightly lower, is a stone
tomb-chest flanked by square bronze vases which bears on
bronze plates on its top the names of the 300 or so who died
in the Second World War, and in Korea, with, on the front, the
dates 1939-1945.

Listing NGR: SD4790861530

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, 2 February 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26679174

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments