Description

ST 8614 IWERNE MINSTER HIGHER STREET

10/137 The War Office

GV II

Shelter containing notice boards c.1920 by Giles Gilbert Scott for J. Ismay.
Square rubbble walls with Doulting stone dressings, tiled roof. Gable has
sculpted relief of Mercury with electric rays emanating from his hands
representing the dissemination of news by wireless. The shelter stems from
the practice, established during World War I, of posting newspapers of a
variety of political views, together with telegraph bulletins, on a board
over the village pump for the information of villagers. It is now used
as a general parish notice board. (P Anderson Graham 'Iwerne Minster
before, during and after the Great War', privately printed, probably 1927).

Listing NGR: ST8667814514

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26403876

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