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Latitude: 53.8298 / 53°49'47"N
Longitude: -1.5682 / 1°34'5"W
OS Eastings: 428518
OS Northings: 437151
OS Grid: SE285371
Mapcode National: GBR BC6.RW
Mapcode Global: WHC95.WZFV
Plus Code: 9C5WRCHJ+WP
Entry Name: War Memorial at South End of Memorial Drive
Listing Date: 11 September 1996
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1256215
English Heritage Legacy ID: 465157
ID on this website: 101256215
Location: Meanwood, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Moortown
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Meanwood Holy Trinity
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: War memorial
LEEDS
SE23NE GREEN ROAD, Meanwood
714-1/6/965 (North East side)
War Memorial at south end of
Memorial Drive
GV II
Memorial to First World War. c1920, altered to include
memorial to fallen of Second World War. By AR Powys. For
Walter Rowley. Hammer-tooled gritstone base, timber-framed and
weather-boarded shelter with stone slate roof supporting a
bronze crucifix. The underside of the canopy is plastered and
decorated with gold stars on a white ground; blue enamel in
Christ's halo.
The lower part of the rear wall of the shelter has carved
lettering: 'TO THE GLORY OF GOD/ AND IN PERPETUAL HONOUR OF
THE MEN/ OF THIS PARISH WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-18',
list of 46 names, 'FORGET NOT THOSE WHO DIED THAT WE MIGHT
LIVE/ EVEN SO DID CHRIST/ MR WALTER ROWLEY OF ALDER HILL
MEANWOOD GAVE THIS MEMORIAL/ HIS NEPHEW FELL AT
VILLERS=BRETONNEUX, 24 APRIL 1918 RIP'. A bronze plaque added
to the stone base lists 46 names of those who died in the
1939-45 war.
AR Powys was brother of the then vicar of Holy Trinity Church
and a long-time secretary of the Society for the Protection of
Ancient Buildings.
Listing NGR: SE2851837151
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, 31 January 2017.
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