Description

ULVERSTON

SD2878
626-1/3/65

MARKET PLACE
War Memorial

GV
II

War memorial. Unveiled 1921. Designed by Professor WG
Collingwood. Sandstone ashlar, from Birchover quarries in
Derbyshire. Square plan, on a stepped base and with thin
diagonal buttresses. Above inscribed bronze plaques on each
face are crocketed gables with blind tracery decoration. The
cross head is carried on a column of clustered shafts with a
foliated capital.
(Rimmer, Revd JS: The Story of Ulverston: Ulverston: 1925-:
5).

Listing NGR: SD2857278350

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, 3 February 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560284

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]