Description

TL 1638
12/20

CLIFTON
CHURCH STREET (West Side)
Well head and war memorial, at junction with Grange Street

II

Well head later converted to war memorial. Date 1881 worked into fretwork of wellhead, with plaque added to commemorate World Wars I and II. Timber structure, painted to imitate oak, lower part of roof of plain and fishscale tiles, upper part of diamond-shaped slates. Picturesque style. Small square shelter, lower part of roof hipped, upper part with gablets, topped by small lantern with spire. Fret-work decoration to gablets and lantern, wrought iron finials. Well-head within has gabled wood casing surmounted by small embattled lantern. To north side is large ashlar tablet bearing names of those of the Parish who fell in the Great Wars, surmounted by a small bronze plaque.

Listing NGR: TL1647838977

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, 16 January 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599220

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