Description

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EAST MARKHAM,
HIGH STREET,
War Memorial

26-JUN-01

GV II

War memorial, unveiled Tuesday 21st September 1920 by Mr W. Chapman J.P. (Chairman of East Markham Parish Council), dedicated by Reverend J. O. Crosse (Vicar of East Markham), designed and made by Sharpe & Hoggard (of Retford). Paid for by Mr Henry Cowlishaw and erected on land donated by Mrs Drinkwater. Polished pink granite. Square plan with four lower steps all rock-faced. Above a tapering base, with double chamfered plinths, inscribed with the names of those who fell in the Great War, the Second World War and the Korean War. Moulded cap surmounted by tall broken Doric column – the broken column is a deliberate feature (representing the lives cut short), with the column top being placed on the lower corner step.

Listing NGR: SK7391273310

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, 24 January 2017.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668696

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Recommended Books

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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)