Description

NEWHALL C.P. WRENBURY ROAD
SJ 64 NW
6107 4680
3/73 Lychgate at Aston Burial
- Ground
- II
War Memorial lychgate. c.1919. Timber framed on brick base with a
slate roof. Side walls with double gates between. Road front: corner
posts of cross section. The jowled tops are inscribed at left 1914,
at right 1918 supporting a cambered tie-beam which is inscribed IN
MEMORY OF THE FALLEN HEROES OF THE GREAT WAR. S-shaped braces above
and decorated bargeboards. Rear: similar, the bressumer inscribed
UNRIGHTEOUS TO FORGET and the inner face inscribed THEY DIED THAT WE
MIGHT LIVE. Also inside at left and right are wooden tablets above
the brick side walls, being that at left inscribed
BROOMHALL/SOUND/NEWHALL/SMEETON and then a list of 13 names. To the
right is a similar tablet inscribed REMEMBRANCE/DUTY/ PATRIOTISM/TRUTH
FREEDOM/FAITH/SACRIFICE/LOVE/IMMORTALITY. There are stone quoins to
the rear of the lower brick walls and a chamfered coping to the top.

Listing NGR: SJ6105846810

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 20 July 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26639703

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)