Description

GREAT AMWELL LONDON ROAD
TL 3510 (east side)

Hertford Heath
14/13 Great War Memorial Cross
at Haileybury and Imperial
Service College on terrace in
middle of south front

GV II

War memorial. 1923 by Reginald Blomfield. Portland Stone 'Cross
of Sacrifice'. A tall tapering cross with tapering arms and
expanded terminals. Deeply chamfered rectangular section
continued through moulded base of cross, large inscribed drum
with its stepped foot on 2 steps of unequal height and
corresponding plinth bringing it up to the level of the terrace.
All of an elongated octagonal plan parallel with the S range of
the main Quad. On the front (S) a large Damascus sword in bronze
originally gilded. A simple monument on the central axis of the
S front. Included for group value. (Blunt (1966) 22,28).

Listing NGR: TL3580010675

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, 12 January 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26641869

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Recommended Books

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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)