Description

TQ2987SW
635-1/6/10127
22-MAY-01

HORNSEY LANE
War memorial at St Aloysius School

II

War memorial. Post 1918, mason/designer unknown. Carrara marble relief, base and flanking side panels within a wrought iron screen. The relief of the crucifixion is set between Corinthian colonnettes and within a cross-topped gable. The stepped, moulded base includes the inscription TO THE SACRED AND LOVING MEMORY OF THE ALOYSIANS WHO GAVE THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR. 1914-1918. AT SEA, ON LAND, AND IN THE AIR. DUTY WELL DONE: REST WELL WON. REMEMBER THEM IN YOUR THOUGHTS. REMEMBER THEM IN YOUR PRAYERS. Flanking panels list (on left) the names of First World War casualties; on the right, those of the Second World War. A relatively unusual form of school war memorial in the form of a wayside calvary.

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, 16 February 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561456

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