Description

LANCASTER

SD46SE QUERNMORE ROAD
1685-1/1/250 (North side (off))
Crimea Monument in Lancaster
Cemetery

II

Crimean War memorial. c1860. Carboniferous limestone. An
obelisk, standing on 3 deep steps and consisting of a square
plinth and tapering shaft set on a square base. Each face of
the plinth is topped by a Grecian pediment. On the west side
the base of the shaft is inscribed 'CRIMEA', and the plinth is
inscribed: 'TO THE IMPERISHABLE MEMORY OF THE BRAVE SOLDIERS
AND SAILORS, NATIVES OF LANCASTER AND THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WHO
FELL IN THE RUSSIAN WAR, A.D. MDCCCLIV.V.VI. THIS MONUMENT
ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTIONS IS DEDICATED.' On other faces
are inscribed the names of those soldiers who died.

Listing NGR: SD4918961969

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
• War Memorial, Lancaster Cemetery at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7968467

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