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Latitude: 53.5457 / 53°32'44"N
Longitude: -2.6325 / 2°37'57"W
OS Eastings: 358185
OS Northings: 405640
OS Grid: SD581056
Mapcode National: GBR BW1F.VP
Mapcode Global: WH97Y.J4NM
Plus Code: 9C5VG9W8+7X
Entry Name: War Memorial South of Church of All Saints with Encircling Railings
Listing Date: 24 October 1951
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1384562
English Heritage Legacy ID: 484997
Also known as: War Memorial at All Saints' Church
Wigan Cross
ID on this website: 101384562
Location: Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN1
County: Wigan
Electoral Ward/Division: Wigan Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Wigan
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Wigan All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Gothic Revival War memorial
WIGAN
SD5805NW WALLGATE
24-1/7/112 (West side (off))
24/10/51 War Memorial south of Church of All
Saints, with encircling railings
GV II*
War memorial. 1925, by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott. Portland stone
with bronze plaques. Eleanor Cross type. Octagonal 3-stage
plinth, the centre and upper stages surrounded by rectangular
bronze plaques with names of the fallen in raised lettering,
and the upper stage with re-entrants on the south and north
sides, the south lettered:
"REMEMBER THE MEN OF WIGAN WHO GAVE / THEIR LIVES TO THE GREAT
WAR 1914-1918 / AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945", and the
north:
"A GOOD LIFE HATH BUT A FEW DAYS / BUT A GOOD NAME LIVETH FOR
EVER".
High octagonal pillar with panelled sides, triangular shafts
to the corners carried up to wreath-bearing figures between
the windows of an elaborately and delicately traceried lantern
with a corona and apex cross. Curved triangular memorial
garden surrounded by dwarf walls with chamfered coping and
dwarf quatrefoiled iron railings; entrances at corners flanked
by lamp standards on octagonal plinths. Forms group with
Church of All Saints (qv).
Listing NGR: SD5818505640
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, 30 January 2017.
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