Description

PRESTON

SD5429NW MEADOW STREET
941-1/10/206 (North side)
War Memorial in front of Church of
St Ignatius

GV II

Parish war memorial. 1922, by J.S.Mangan of Preston, with
statuary by Hooper and Webb of Liverpool. Portland stone and
bronze plaques. Rectangular monument 22 feet high in the form
of a Calvary, the lower part tripartite, with diagonal
buttresses, a moulded plinth, and a dado with the centre
breaking forwards and continued upwards as an elaborate
pedestal to the Crucifix, which is flanked by statues of a
sailor and a soldier in mourning stance. The front of the dado
has an arched panel in the centre with carved head and crest,
containing a bronze panel with dedication, and cusped panels
at the sides, containing bronze plaques with figures in
relief; the rear has panels with bronze plaques displaying 228
names.

Listing NGR: SD5417829896

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, 2 February 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26502466

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Recommended Books

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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)