Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/10/2015

SK 3516 1/36
5306

MARKET STREET (North Side),
War Memorial with attached railings, piers, gate and lamps

II GV

First World War memorial designed by architect Thomas Henry Fosbrooke (1862-1925) of the Leicester architectural practice of Fosbrooke and Bedingfield. It was unveiled on 8 June 1922. Constructed of Charnwood slate and sandstone in the form of an arch containing a cross. Sandstone hood. Railed front wall with gate and side lamps on stone plinth and metal columns. Continues to rear as railed enclosure with Charnwood slate interval piers. Includes a plaque to those who died during the Second World War.

Listing NGR: SK3573716731

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, 20 January 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26333356

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)